- From: Emrah BASKAYA <emrahbaskaya@hesido.com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 01:18:10 +0300
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 21:01:16 +0100 (BST), David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > I wrote: > >> This is at best a flawed example. In this context, color and >> background-color >> almost certainly must be !required, as colours should always be set in >> sets to ensure contrast. The authors' potential to mis-use a css feature is mainly the autor's problem and this should not be a reason not to implement a feature. We are allowed to have a green font on green background which is barely readable, which is not good. But still, we can. > > > Actually this raises one a possibly serious problem with all-or-nothing > type processing. > > The problem is that what one really wants to test is whether the style > rule would be effective, not just whether it is supported. With > !important rules, one could end up with a forward reference, if not > circularity. > Testing whether the style would be effective instead of being supported is indeed a very good idea. Ideas keep getting better and better. -- Emrah BASKAYA www.hesido.com
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