- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:03:56 +1100 (AEDT)
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
This problem brings to the fore once again an issue which I raised in the HC working group last week. Suppose that two media types were defined as follows: media="screen enlarged" media="print enlarged" Now according to the current draft of the HTML specification, these media types would be truncated, respectively, to "screen" and "print". As I understand it, there is broad agreement within the HC working group that the specification needs to be changed in this regard, so as to allow additional media types, including parameterized values, to be established by the W3C without changing the HTML 4.0 specification. Given this proposal, if the default persistent style sheet has one or both of the hypothetical media types mentioned above (E.G. media="screen enlarged, print enlarged"), then would a later persistent style sheet of type media="print" participate in the cascade? My preliminary conclusion is that it should not do so, for the reason which has been mentioned in this discussion, namely that it is difficult to design a style sheet which would successfully prevent a later style sheet from setting the font size in one or more elements of the document.
Received on Wednesday, 29 October 1997 22:04:18 UTC