- From: Frank Boumphrey <bckman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 11:09:25 -0400
- To: "David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net>, "Style" <www-style@w3.org>
Much better put David! How about a lawyer_speak instead of gobblydygook, or even a special tag <gobbyldygook></gobbyldygook> Frank Frank Boumphrey XML and style sheet info at Http://www.hypermedic.com/style/index.htm Author: - Professional Style Sheets for HTML and XML http://www.wrox.com -----Original Message----- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net> To: Frank Boumphrey <bckman@ix.netcom.com>; Style <www-style@w3.org> Date: Friday, August 07, 1998 1:24 AM Subject: Re: Conversion of HTML attributes to CSS2 properties >Frank Boumphrey vehemently wrote: > > >>>"The UA may choose to honor presentational hints from other sources than >>>style sheets, for example the FONT element or the "align" attribute in >>HTML. >>>If so, the non-CSS presentational hints must be translated to the >>>corresponding CSS rules with specificity equal to zero. The rules are >>>assumed to be at the start of the author style sheet and may be overridden >>>by subsequent style sheet rules." >> >>What this gibberish basically means is that a user agent can choose to >>display styling type tags provided there is no conflicting CSS rule!! > >Close. How about: "A user agent may display HTML element styling attributes, >such as 'align', 'color', and 'face', provided there are no conflicting CSS >rules in the author stylesheet." ? > >>The rest is semantics!! > >I believe that's semantically incorrect. The rest is *gobbledygook*. >Semantics is what remains when the gibberish and gobbledygook are >exclusively-ORed. > >David Perrell > > >
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