Re: specificity, user style sheets and SVG

Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
> however using a user style sheet:
> :link, :visited { text-decoration: underline ! important }
> 
> this worked well with many html pages, however with svg it appears it 
> may not for Opera, Amaya and Camino

Did it work in an _author_ stylesheet?  In released Gecko versions this wouldn't 
work for SVG in _any_ stylesheet.  Nothing specific to user stylesheets.

> I often get things wrong, but if right, it does seem as this is a fairly 
> basic failure to implement a standard.

Those happen, sure.  They don't necessarily indicate that the standard has a 
problem, though if everyone is getting it wrong that's a hint, of course.  ;)

-Boris