- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 00:36:17 +0100
- To: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- CC: www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Dão Gottwald wrote:
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis schrieb:
>> Dão Gottwald wrote:
>>> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis schrieb:
>>>> If AT had better support for CSS, and CSS had style selectors, we'd
>>>> be in a slightly happier place:
>>>
>>> Ah, style selectors once again ...
>>>
>>> :style("font-style:normal") {
>>> font-style: italic;
>>> }
>>> :style("font-style:italic") {
>>> font-style: normal;
>>> }
>>>
>>> See what happens?
>>
>> Hmm. Wouldn't that only be problematic if an equal weight has to be
>> given to both rules?
>
> No, the weight doesn't matter at all. Those rules never apply to the
> same element simultaneously. Once its state changed according to one
> rule, the other one applies.
Hmm. Yes I see what you mean.
>> Alternatively, one could require UAs to ignore self-contradictory
>> property declarations used with style selectors.
>
> I thought removing the font style of otherwise-italic text inside of
> italic text was the goal.
Yes. But that's not what your problematic example rules do.
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Received on Sunday, 6 May 2007 23:36:27 UTC