- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:43:28 +1100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, www-style@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> I didn't notice that in 6.4.2, it defines that only user and author >> stylesheets can contain !important rules, and incorrectly assumed that they >> could be used in a UA stylesheet as well. However, it doesn't seem to be >> defined how a UA should handle such rules in a UA stylesheet. > > Doesn't matter, since by definition only one UA will ever have to deal > with those rules, and therefore interoperability is not required when it > comes to handling of those rules. Ok, fair enough. > In Firefox ua.css !important rules are ultimate overrides, used to work > around crashes, non-sensical rules, and the like. (There are quite a lot > of them if you look around html.css, forms.css, etc.) Ok, I didn't see those in there before cause I searched for "!important" instead of "! important". -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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