- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:48:48 -0700
- To: "Chris Wilson (PSD)" <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>, "'John Udall'" <jsu1@cornell.edu>, <www-style@w3.org>
Chris Wilson wrote: >The problem is that in the user's hands is not really where you want >this control to be - that's the problem with me explaining our table >inheritance behavior as "user stylesheet settings". The document author >needs to be able to make some presumptions about how documents will be >parsed and rendered by default. Yes, and even "legacy mode" isn't going to allow making those assumptions. Whose legacy? >Maybe >that switch should be linked to the presence of (or the value of) the ><!DOCTYPE>, I don't know - but that seems like a better route for >attacking the problem. Comments? That makes a lot of sense. But I can't see that UA writers are able to strictly support their own legacy, much less any DTD. David Perrell
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