- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:55:29 +0100
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:35:13 +0100, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
>> dl > dd { margin-left: 40px; } /* margin-right, for rtl elements */
>>
>> <dd>s not in a <dl> should still be indented.
>
> For what it's worth, in Quirks mode, Gecko does something quite a
> bit more complicated involving a forced line break and indentation,
> and makes such dd's display:inline.
I realise that IE does that too, but is it required for Web compat? Opera doesn't and I'm not aware of any page breaking because of it.
>> body { color: black; background: white; }
>>
>> This should be on html:root instead (if at all).
>
> No, since then any author rules setting background on body would not
> get propagatated to the canvas per the rules in
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#background .
Ah, right. Then it shouldn't be specified at all.
>> abbr[title], acronym[title] { text-decoration: dotted underline; }
>>
>> This should be border-bottom: thin dotted.
>
> I think dotted text-decorations (once supported) would be superior
> to bottom borders here.
Oh, I was unaware of dotted text-decorations.
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Simon Pieters
Opera Software
Received on Monday, 2 February 2009 21:56:24 UTC