- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 10:21:49 +1100 (EST)
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> At 02:09 PM 12/5/97 -0800, Charles (Chuck) Oppermann wrote: > >How about recommending that browsers implement a "user always wins" switch? > CMcCN:: The CSS standard does this. But it is a recommendation. Why not make it part of the Cascade rules? The virtue of this is it is fairly easy to make the change, and it would be retro-active for CSS1. The problem of specificity is a little harder. It would be possible simply to allow ANY user Style to override author styles, and ignore the specificity rules. But they can be a useful tool. So it would be better to include a mechanism which allows the user to set the specificity of their style. For example, I may like to have my H2 style override any H2 subclass, but have a (differently styled) H2 subclass which will override an H2 with an ID attribute. This preserves the ability to mark out particular objects which the subclassing allows. Charles McCathieNevile charlesn@srl.rmit.edu.au Sunrise Research Laboratory RMIT University
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