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Re: CSS 2.1 WD and non-CSS presentational hints

From: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 16:29:49 -0400
Message-ID: <3D73CA3D.47627F4C@escape.com>
To: www-style@w3.org 

Ian Hickson wrote:
> 
> I don't understand why I would want to override the default UA rendering
> of <strong>, but not the default UA rendering of <font color="obnoxious">.
> In fact, I imagine I would want to override <font> a lot _more_ than I
> would want to override <strong>.

That's what user !important is for. I imagine that you would want to
override <span style="color: obnoxious"> just as much as <font
color="obnoxious"> and I don't imagine that you care whether or not
the author specified the color with CSS.

~fantasai
Received on Monday, 2 September 2002 16:26:56 GMT

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