- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:37:46 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
>
> You could say that not only should authors never set the background
> color without setting the foreground color, they should also never set
> the background color without setting the *link* color.
Yeah, that's what I meant.
> But this still doesn't help if the UA (or a user stylesheet) uses
>
> span { color: green; }
Such a user would be to blame for again not setting the colour and
background (and link colour for links in the <span>) together.
> I don't think there's any way around this. If a UA sets unexpected
> style rules, it *will* break some sites. I imagine that the response to
> this is that while this may be so, it's possible that in some cases it
> will be a tradeoff against platform integration or something, and so it
> should still be up to the implementers to decide whether it's a good
> tradeoff in their case. The expectation would be that for conventional
> browsers, it won't be. This is pretty much just the definition of
> "should" in RFC2119.
I mostly agree, except that I think the current spec text (using "expected
to" rather than "should") more accurately represents what we want here.
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