- From: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:05:49 +0100
- To: K Hopper <asgard@wave.co.nz>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org, Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr
> Greetings,
> Once again I bring bad tidings about Amaya 5.4/linux. I am developing
> a web-based tutorial notes on CSS for a course and adapted an example from
> the CSS Recommendation (section 9.2.3) to produce the following in a style
> sheet -
>
> dl[class=aside] {
> margin-left: 2em ;
> background-color: rgb(224,255,224) ;
> color: inherit ;
> border: 1px inset rgb(128,96,96)
> }
>
> dl.aside > dt {
> display: compact ;
> background-color: transparent ;
> color: rgb(128,96,96)
> }
>
> dl.aside > dd {
> margin-left: 25mm
> }
>
> The entire style sheet passed the W3C validator with flying colours -
> but Amaya complained about a parsing error in relation to the display
> property with the value compact.
That property is correctly parsed by Amaya but the property is not applied yet.
Only display: block; display: none; and display: inline; are already
interpreted.
> I experimented by putting the style in-line in a test document - which
> passed through the HTML Validator as xhtml 1.1, no errors & no warnings -
> but Amaya again complained - and this time it didn't like the colour being
> inherited either! - though the validator was happy.
>
> Mozilla (0.9.9) does not handle this styling correctly as specified in
> the CSS2 Recommendation although Opera 6.0beta does. Neither, however,
> produce parsing errors!!
>
> Keith Hopper
>
> PS Mor on the .333 url problem when I get back to work on Monday.
>
>
>
Received on Thursday, 28 March 2002 06:05:59 UTC