- From: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 01:18:12 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Todd Fahrner writes: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1-961217.html#the-cascade > > > > " The UA may choose to honor other stylistic HTML attributes, for > > example 'ALIGN'. If so, these attributes are translated to the > > corresponding CSS rules with specificity equal to 1. The rules are > > assumed to be at the start of the author style sheet and may be > > overridden by subsequent style sheet rules. In a transition phase, > > this policy will make it easier for stylistic attributes to coexist > > with style sheets. " > As I read this, all stylistic attributes on HTML elements (as opposed to > inline STYLE calls) should always be overridden by author stylesheets, or > by user stylesheets where "!important" is declared. Correct. > Many, many authors will care how their documents are rendered in NS 3.0 > until CSS browsers achieve better than 80% penetration. I'm exploring > transitional strategies. Make sure you keep us posted on your findings. -h&kon H å k o n W i u m L i e howcome@w3.org W o r l d Wide W e b Consortium inria §°þ#¡ª FRANCE http://www.w3.org/people/howcome
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