- From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 14:52:37 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Hakon.Lie@sophia.inria.fr (Hakon Lie)
- Cc: lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk, www-style@w3.org
> > lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk writes: > > > Someone who personally hates strike-through but their device supports it > > has no option but to live with it. Their style sheet cannot over-ride > > yours. You have removed freedom of choice from the reader by not naming > > the distinctiveness of your para 14 > > No. In CSS, the reader can supply a personal style sheet and by > labelling declarations as "important", they will override the author's > style, including STYLE attributes. Could you elaborate exactly how that works? I don't see how the readers style sheet can influence the presentation of an un-named ad-hoc peice of stylesheet on an individual element. > Perhaps the "including STYLE attributes" should be clearer in the > specification. Putting declarations into attributes should not be a > way of dictating style. Perhaps it should be revised to only allow named styles, as was suggested earlier. I would be in favour of this; so it seems would Glenn and Paul. -- Chris Lilley, Technical Author and JISC representative to W3C +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manchester and North Training & Education Centre ( MAN T&EC ) | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk | | Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 161 275 6045 | | Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Fax: +44 161 275 6040 | | M13 9PL BioMOO: ChrisL | | Timezone: UTC URI: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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