- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 20:02:30 -0700
- To: "David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
At 7:22 PM -0700 7/27/97, David Perrell wrote: >Todd Fahrner wrote: >> FWIW, I think a user's !important declaration should have highest >weight. >> There's no need for an authorial !important when author's normal >> declarations enjoy pride of place anyway. > >If the lowest !important took precedence over all higher-ranked >declarations -- including other !important ones -- readers and authors >would think long and hard before using it. Authors because it would be >meaningless. Readers because it could obfuscate an author's intended >message. Precisely as it should be, I think. What's to be gained by spreading out the drama? Can you provide an example that shows the downside of a simpler cascade? I have tried, and could come up only with rare "performance art" examples, like http://www.jodi.org . ________________________________________ 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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