Re: Comments on CSS3 backgrounds WD

Andrew Clover wrote:
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-background-20020219/)
> 
> All the new properties seem to be missing 'inherit' values. I'm not sure
> about the usefulness of either of the following properties, but anyway...:

I'm not awake enough to answer your other questions, but this bit I can... 
'inherit' is no longer going to be explicitly mentioned on any value list, since 
all properties have it. It will instead be moved to the syntax module (or the 
cascade module, I forget).

The new value 'initial' is also supposed to be only mentioned in the syntax 
module, with 'inherit'; that it was mentioned in the background module at all is 
an error.

The 'initial' keyword is exactly equivalent to setting the property to its 
initial value, as given by the "Initial Value:" line on the table. So for 
example for 'background-image' the value 'initial' is exactly equivalent to 
'none', but for 'color' the result of the value 'initial' depends on the UA.

-- 
Ian Hickson
``The inability of a user agent to implement part of this specification due to
the limitations of a particular device (e.g., non interactive user agents will
probably not implement dynamic pseudo-classes because they make no sense
without interactivity) does not imply non-conformance.'' -- Selectors, Sec13

Received on Tuesday, 12 March 2002 17:04:10 UTC