- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:09:03 -0500
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
David Woolley wrote: >>That's correct. That is in fact what the specification requires. > > In that case the specification is so counter-intuitive as to be > dangerous That was the claim, yes. Which part is counter-intuitive, though? > and it also encourages "pixel perfection" > authors to specify line-heights in absolute units[1] Where is this encouraged? > It does, however, seem to me that the browser default style sheet can > override the problem inheritance How so? What rules would you place in the UA sheet to do so? > (I would actually suggest that whoever wrote > the example default style sheet in the CSS2.0 specification, failed to > appreciate the issue Yes. Note that this is corrected in CSS 2.1, which only uses number line-height values in the example style sheet. -Boris
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