- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 16:54:59 +0100 (BST)
- To: Oren Ben-Kiki <oren@capella.co.il>
- cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote: >> Unfortunately, to my knowledge noone has as yet worked out a suitable >> set of rules to make the cascade work well with !maximum and !minimum. >> (I do not know if anyone has even tried). > What is wrong with behaving as if each "attr: value" is a shorthand > for "attr: value ! minimum; attr: value ! maximum"? Cascading could > then be handled according to the current rules. Each property really needs three values; optimum, minimum and maximum (think of width, min-width and max-width). > I'd be more worried about clearly defining what algorithm the browser should > use to try to satisfy these constraints. It is this algorithm to which I was referring. -- Ian Hickson : Is your JavaScript ready for Nav5 and IE5? : Get the latest JavaScript client sniffer at : http://developer.netscape.com/docs/examples/javascript/browser_type.html
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