Re: WD-CSS21-20020802 section 8, "Box model", substantive comments

Ian Hickson quoted me and wrote to <www-style@w3.org> on
22 February 2003 in 'Re: WD-CSS21-20020802 section 8,
"Box model", substantive comments'
(<mid:Pine.LNX.4.50.0302220517250.3785-100000@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>):

>> The specification needs to specify exactly which elements confer the
>> permission to deviate from the box model. As it stands, an implementor
>> could claim that 'p' and 'div' elements are the "certain elements"
>> mentioned in the specification.

> Yes, they could, but they'd be the laughing stock of the CSS community.

True though that be, I remain unsatisfied. What we need is not a
laughingstock but a set of clear conformance criteria. If the
criteria are not only clear but strict too, the CSS community is
all the better for it.

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Etan Wexler <mailto:ewexler@stickdog.com>.
If trannies are five, then queers are six, and
if queers are six then Donna Dresch is seven.

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