Re: @try in CSS3 (was: Useragent Rules in CSS)

*Chris Moschini*:
> Christoph Paper:

Without the umlaut dots my surname looks rather silly indeed. Please note that
the correct transliteration of German umlauts is vowel+e.

>> Can anyone provide an example which this approach cannot solve?
>
> Sadly, I can:
>
> @try { #myDiv {
> width: 100px;
> margin: 1px;
> }}
>
> Internet Explorer would incorrectly draw the block 98px wide,

That's not a valid example, as I wrote:

| Any such mechanism should only be designed to work around
| non implemented parts, not wrongly implemented ones (bugs).

You may replace that "should" with "could".

> @try {
> }
> @catch {
> }

That's like it's done in some programming languages, but in CSS I would rather
expect something like

  foo {fall: back;}
  @batch {
    foo {fall: forward; some-more: complicated;}
  }