- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 15:42:19 -0700
- To: "David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net>, <www-style@w3.org>, "E. Stephen Mack" <estephen@emf.net>, liam@htmlhelp.com
At 2:15 PM -0700 7/27/97, David Perrell wrote: >E. Stephen Mack wrote: >> At this point, I think it becomes ESSENTIAL for the UA to >> release their default style sheet. That will make working >> with style sheets much simpler. > >In any case it looks like prudent authors will have to declare style >for all elements they use. Right. So what do y'all say we harness some of the smarts and energy here to produce an exhaustively-specified "default" stylesheet for all HTML 4 elements? Not a "designery" one, but one representing typical out-of-the-box rendering of all HTML elements in the dominant browsers. We'll know we're done when we can't tell whether it's being appled or not (assuming correct CSS implementations, of course, and no changes to user settings). Appendix A of the CSS1 Recommendation has such a sheet for HTML 2.0, but it has suffered from fatal early CSS implementations, an outmoded DTD as a target, and a wee bit too much creativity in colors to be authoritative as a base. Prudent CSS authors, hoping to avoid damaging interactions with user style sheets, can link to this sheet (@import) as a base. It will be easier and better to edit this sheet than to create new ones from scratch, complicating them incrementally as HTML content grows. If not us, who? ________________________________________ Todd Fahrner mailto:fahrner@pobox.com http://www.verso.com/ The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinitude of books, must be transcended. THE ELECTRO-LIBRARY. --El Lissitzky, 1923
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