- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 15:55:29 -0800
- To: "Eric A. Meyer" <eam3@po.cwru.edu>, www-style@w3.org
Eric A. Meyer wrote (5:28 PM -0500 12/9/97): " I agree with you completely about CSS1 implementations. However, are " these "proposed CSS properties" implementations of properties which were " part of the proposed CSS2 specification, or are they properties which " Microsoft proposed and then campaigned to get into the specification? (I " note that they all seem to be there in one sense or another, at least in " the Index.) " There is, I hope ye ken, a small but crucial difference. What's the difference? Vendors propose all kinds of things. If they are well-documented and harmonious with established architectural principles, I see no problem with this. Implementing first is a bit different, but not out of line with this statement: http://www.microsoft.com/internet/html.htm <div class=rant> If you have a Mac, you won't be able to read this document in a CSS browser because MS insists on using points, their only non-buggy CSS unit. Once again, using points for screen display is out of line with the CSS1 (and CSS2) recommendations; viz: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1-961217#length-units </div> " >or the real "ex" unit (not just .5 em). " " Is that what they did? Bleah. Yep. " This means that the compatibility charts " in my Reference Guide are a little misleading, doesn't it? Sigh... and I " was already depressed enough by the fact the cross-platform, cross-browser " support of CSS1 is standing at just above 12.5%... IE4 supports "ex" to the extent that it's larger than a pixel and smaller than an em (and it doesn't blow up), but it ain't the real ex. Your charts are useful, and a noble endeavor, but it's real hard to say what works and what doesn't in two measly dimensions. So many obscure contextual variables at play. Yes, it is depressing. Todd Fahrner mailto:fahrner@pobox.com http://www.verso.com/agitprop/ The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinitude of books, must be transcended. THE ELECTRO-LIBRARY. - El Lissitzky, 1923
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