- From: Douglas Rand <drand@sgi.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 12:27:12 -0400
- To: EMeyer <eam3@po.cwru.edu>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
EMeyer wrote: > * Following their original web design, tables do not inherit styles > from the surrounding text or style sheet. > (quoted from the Navigator 4.0 release notes) I think they're wrong on this. They should inherit based on the document structure, and thus inherit in reasonable way. But note that very few properties are really inherited in CSS, mostly fonts and backgrounds. >... > both browsers-- different things for each browser, of course-- but I think > *correct* support for float on all elements would be a huge step. > Navigator at least supports float, but breaks when you start associating It really isn't that difficult, I do it in our browser. The code which builds the rendering structure checks for displayFLOAT for inline or block elements (my internal value for the property) and sticks the content in a floater container. It's relatively simple and few lines of code, et voila, I can put a paragraph off to the left (and I did for my public demo at SGI's developer's forum). Every capable browser already does such things for IMG and TABLE replaced elements. I have other complaints, like N4's lack of support for the anchor pseudoclasses. I told a Netscape person (not to be named) about my support for changing geometry on anchor activation and the person was horrified, even though the spec. is *not* ambiguous over this. I think some properties actually *are* problematic, for example vertical-align applied to textual objects in paragraph flows really make only modest sense. The definition of vertical-align also doesn't correspond to common practice, started with Mosaic, of carrying the top and bottom text limits for the line as the line is formatted from left to right. Thus vertical-align can lead to circular dependencies, which is not good, IMO. Doug -- Doug Rand drand@sgi.com Silicon Graphics/Silicon Desktop http://reality.sgi.com/drand Disclaimer: These are my views, SGI's views are in 3D
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