- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:39:03 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Saturday 2002-08-31 18:24 +0000, 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>. Well, it has less to do with that than the idea that we want user preferences to be expressable as a user stylesheet, and therefore things like the color-related attributes on BODY would stop working given this change. Regarding the definition of presentational hints, it was pointed out at the recent working group meeting that CSS1 has a much clearer definition than CSS2 does: it refers to "other stylistic HTML attributes" and "stylistic attributes" [1]. So I think it is clear that the intent was to describe attributes but not elements. -David [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#cascading-order -- L. David Baron <URL: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/ >
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