- From: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:03:14 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, www-style@w3.org
On Apr 10, 2005 4:28 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Orion Adrian wrote: > > > > I'd like to understand _why_ we're sticking to this system. > > Because no backwards-compatible improvement has been found that doesn't > have worse problems than the existing situation, mostly. > > > > The structures we're working on do not behave this way. They are not > > single property structures, but rather multi-property structures. For > > example color/background color should always be set together, but > > inherit seperatly and are set seperately. > > There are cases where you only want to set one. That's part of the > problem. > Can you tell me when you would only want to set one. I can imagine wanting to set one two a new color and another to inherit. But there's a subtle difference there. It seems to me that you always want to set both, but sometimes you want to only override one. I can't imagine setting border-width by itself initially - it just doesn't make sense. It however is useful to replace only a single value. Orion
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