- From: Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@myrealbox.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:06:39 -0500
On Nov 4, 2007, at 5:59 AM, Keryx Web wrote:
>
> Matthew Paul Thomas skrev:
>>
>> To allow this on the Web, the CSS font-style property would need to
>> have not just "normal", "italic", and "oblique" values, but also an
>> "italic-inverse" value. Browsers should then use this value by
>> default for any inline element where they currently use "italic".
>
> No problem!
>
> i {
> font-style: italic;
> }
>
> i i {
> font-style: normal;
> }
> ...
We're getting off-topic here, but ... That wouldn't deitalicize
<cite><i>, <em><i>, <i><cite>, <i><dfn>, <i><em>, or <i><var>, when it
should. As the levels of nesting increased, the number of permutations
of these elements would explode. And it's not reasonable to expect any
author who uses "someblockelement {font-style: italic;}" to remember to
also define "someblockelement cite, someblockelement dfn,
someblockelement em, someblockelement i, someblockelement var
{font-style: normal}".
Cheers
--
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
Received on Sunday, 4 November 2007 10:06:39 UTC