Re: OBJECT, inheritance, and rendering

On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, James Aylett wrote:

> Hmm. This suggests to me that something beyond OBJECT is perhaps required
> to give the effect of dependence on the OBJECT's parent styles (and the
> OBJECT's styles themselves).

I've had this discussion on this Mailing List before.  I agree with this
statement, such constructs already exist in SGML, HTML and browsers need
only take advantage of them.

See:
<URL:http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1998Mar/0102.html>
<URL:http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1998Mar/0103.html>
<URL:http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1998Mar/0105.html>

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``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message''
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