- From: George Lund <george@lundbooks.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 22:41:58 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0209021746380.4549-100000@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> writes >This is a long standing recognised problem known as property codependency. > >The working group has not yet seen or thought of a proposal to solve this >problem. Suggestions are welcome, but have most likely already been >considered and rejected. :-) > >See: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1998Oct/0020.html > http://www.hixie.ch/specs/css/wwwstyle/#clash Thanks - I hadn't seen / didn't remember that thread. As a search for codependency reveals only 9 articles, I suspect a lot of the discussion was carried on outside the public list (?). At one point several years ago I vaguely remember suggesting the idea of having an @depend block construct, where all the rules within it would be ignored if any were overridden or didn't make it into the final layout for whatever reason. I've no idea whether that ever got considered and rejected so - there we are - I'll mention it again. Meantime I think CSS 3 should be explicitly removing 'transparent' from the list of values unless this problem is solved. And - although I probably don't completely understand the full horror of what might happen with the table display types thing - I do reckon all W3C specifications should at least have the possibility that they can be implemented! regards -- George Lund PS Would the behavioural extensions have allowed me to control a nettle soup-making device?
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