- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:32:24 -0500
- To: rieger@bse.de
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
From: rieger@bse.de (Wolfgang Rieger) | On Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:23:06 +0200, you wrote: | | >..., though it's probably overkill (I suspect 99% of style | >sheet use will have simple selectors (all heads) and only one rule per | >element). | | Have a look at the style sheet for HTML in the draft. There you have | indeed mostly simple selectors, but quite often more than one rule per | element (e.g. for H1). --- Well, yes and no. While there are multiple rules there for H1, they're really all one rule, broken up for notational convenience. A smart UA would presumably put them together into one rule. Let me re-phrase what I said: I suspect 99% of the property specifications in stylesheets will be retrievable by head-only searches with no dis-ambiguation necessary. I further suspect that if it becomes common to specify a standard stylesheet plus author modifications, it will still be possible for a UA to merge the stylesheets so that 99% of the property specifications are retrievable by head-only searches with no disambiguation necessary. Of course, we won't be able to test those suspicions for some time... scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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