- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:11:05 -0500
On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:06:39 -0500, Matthew Paul Thomas
<mpt at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> 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}".
Going a bit more off-topic, there are people working on solving this
issue: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007May/0030.html
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
Received on Sunday, 4 November 2007 10:11:05 UTC