- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 19:18:17 -0700
- To: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Cc: <fahrner@pobox.com>, <liam@htmlhelp.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
Joel N. Weber II wrote: > I'm quite likely to arrange for !important declarations in reader style > sheets in GNU E-scpae to take precedence over !important declarations > in author style sheets. I haven't yet decided whether this will be handled > by ignoring the !important attribute on author style sheets, or by > swapping the prioirties of user vs author style sheets for !important, > or making it user-configurable, or what. > > So, I'd be interested in hearing any arguements on which particular > technique is best. I'll argue again for reversed priority. In an organization with need for certain style rules, !important could be used in a global stylesheet while still allowing users with deprecated sight abilities to apply styling overrides according to their needs. This is an intranet thing. I'm not suggesting that reversed-priority !important can be any kind of enforcement mechanism, but it could prevent authors with deprecated consciousness from going too far astray. It still gives final precedence to the reader, but allows intermediate overrides as well. David Perrell
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