RE: user-stylesheet-015 invalid because it assumes other rules not present at user level

On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 11:15 AM fantasai wrote:
> On 10/22/2010 07:33 PM, fantasai wrote:
> > On 10/19/2010 12:07 PM, L. David Baron wrote:
> >> These tests:
> >> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20101001/xhtml1/user-stylesheet-0
> >> 15.xht
> >> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20101001/html4/user-stylesheet-01
> >> 5.htm are invalid because they assume other rules are not present at
> >> the user style sheet level. (Technically a bunch of the other tests
> >> are as well, but these are the only ones that actually fail as a
> >> result.)
> >>
> >> As recommended by CSS 2.1 (section 6.4), Gecko treats a number of
> >> user preferences as user style sheet rules. In particular, the
> >> preference for active link colors is represented using the equivalent
> >> of:
> >> :link:active, :visited:active { color:<preference> }
> >>
> >> The test user-stylesheet-015 tests that a rule with selector a:active
> >> in a user style sheet styles a link. However, a:active has lower
> >> specificity than the rule above, so it doesn't work.
> >>
> >> If the rule's selector were a:link:active, a:visited:active it would
> >> work for us.
> >
> > Even better would be to use an ID to qualify the link.
> > This would pull its specificity above anything reasonably likely to be
> > used in a user stylesheet.
> 
> Arron, I saw your update to this test using #test.
> I would suggest using a selector that is very specific to this test, e.g. #user-
> stylesheet-015-test, so that if the user stylesheet is not cleared out after the
> test it doesn't randomly affect other things.

Updated

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Thanks,
Arron Eicholz

Received on Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:27:56 UTC