Re: specificity, user style sheets and SVG

Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
> it seems clear to me at least from your responses that specificity is a 
> clear example where the w3c process has not considered users needs.

I'm not quite sure what in my response gave you that idea.

I can see where you might have gotten that idea from David's response, but I 
think his statement was incorrect.

If you look at the history of the specificity section, user needs were 
definitely considered -- this is why user stylesheet !important rules override 
all author rules.  Didn't use to be that way in the early drafts.  ;)

> from an initial consideration of accessibility, the user being non- 
> technical needs a simple style sheet that works out of the box across 
> the web, if it is to be of any use at all.

A simple stylesheet that does what?

-Boris