- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 22:23:43 -0700
- To: "Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@ix.netcom.com>, "Style" <www-style@w3.org>
Frank Boumphrey vehemently wrote: >>"The UA may choose to honor presentational hints from other sources than >>style sheets, for example the FONT element or the "align" attribute in >HTML. >>If so, the non-CSS presentational hints must be translated to the >>corresponding CSS rules with specificity equal to zero. The rules are >>assumed to be at the start of the author style sheet and may be overridden >>by subsequent style sheet rules." > >What this gibberish basically means is that a user agent can choose to >display styling type tags provided there is no conflicting CSS rule!! Close. How about: "A user agent may display HTML element styling attributes, such as 'align', 'color', and 'face', provided there are no conflicting CSS rules in the author stylesheet." ? >The rest is semantics!! I believe that's semantically incorrect. The rest is *gobbledygook*. Semantics is what remains when the gibberish and gobbledygook are exclusively-ORed. David Perrell
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