- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:37:41 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Martin Atkins wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Paul Arzul wrote: > > > is it unfortunate that the html4 stylesheet is only informative? perhaps > > > html5 could then consider giving us a normative default user agent > > > stylesheet - or at least a normative version with only display properties. > > > > The spec has a semi-normative one now. User agents aren't required to follow > > it, because we never know when they might apply styles for particular users > > with special needs. > > Could that arguably be considered to be a machine-generated user > stylesheet? Does it make any difference? The net result is that the user and the author can't rely on a single style sheet. What benefit would a definite UA style sheet be, if not that? > This would allow the HTML spec to normatively require browsers to use a > particular default stylesheet (or, indeed, act as if they've done so) > while still allowing for user-specific alterations of various kinds. There wouldn't be much point to that requirement, since it couldn't be usefully tested. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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