- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:54:26 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Cc: Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Tantek [ISO-8859-1] Çelik wrote: > > Ian wrote: >> In practice, even with properties where it is well defined, UA developers >> have found it useful to have a value that represents the initial value >> independent of what that value actually is. > > I strongly disagree, and I am a UA developer. You might not have found it useful yourself, but my statement, that UA developers have found it useful, is factually correct. > If a particular UA developer needs a convenience value, they can simply > introduce -vnd-initial or some such equivalent. I believe Mozilla have done this (-moz-initial). > Polluting an *authoring* language for the benefit of UA developers > doesn't make any sense. I have often needed the feature in my own stylesheets, so this would certainly not only be for UA developers. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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