Re: Stylesheet Ordering Requirement

There are really good A11Y reasons to ensure that things like colors,
fonts, layouts, etc. I wouldn't want specs to do something silly that would
reduce their A11Y.

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org> wrote:

> We certainly could but then, that's one less consistency that we'd be able
> to enforce, ie such as color of the links, etc.
>
> Knowing that folks always have a tendency to argue about colors and
> shapes, we will get divergences and we won't attempt to manually enforce
> consistency. That's the reason why this rule was put in place to start with
> (remember the link color on the SVG specs?).
>
> On 05/16/2016 06:41 PM, fantasai wrote:
>
>> Can we drop the requirement that all styles must be before
>> the link to the official W3C styles? While we do want to
>> enforce consistency, and keep people from inappropriately
>> overriding site-wide styling, this rule just creates the
>> need for inappropriate specificity hacks when things do
>> need to be overridden.
>>
>
> ... which has the nice side effect that few attempt to do such thing.
>
> Philippe
>
>


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