Re: Useragent Rules in CSS

On Friday, April 2, 2004, 12:56:19 AM, Philip wrote:




PT> David Woolley wrote:

>>>to deactivate 'blink' but that would also deactivate underlines,
>>>overlines, etc. which is not desirable if I just want blink free
>>>web pages.
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> Seems to me that there is a bug in CSS if blink is something you
>> want to disable orthogonally to other text decorations.

PT> Why ?  If the user suffers from epilepsy, disabling "blink"
PT> (but not disabling underline or whatever) would seem to be
PT> an eminently sensible decision.

Blink is not required to be supported for conformance. It strikes me
that a user agent could have a user preference whether blink is
honored or not.

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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
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