Re: min-font-size

On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote:

>> Unfortunately, to my knowledge noone has as yet worked out a suitable
>> set of rules to make the cascade work well with !maximum and !minimum.
>> (I do not know if anyone has even tried).
> What is wrong with behaving as if each "attr: value" is a shorthand
> for "attr: value ! minimum; attr: value ! maximum"? Cascading could
> then be handled according to the current rules.

Each property really needs three values; optimum, minimum and maximum
(think of width, min-width and max-width).


> I'd be more worried about clearly defining what algorithm the browser should
> use to try to satisfy these constraints.

It is this algorithm to which I was referring.

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