- From: Andrew n marshall <amarshal@usc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 16:23:07 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
- cc: Jean-Michel Leon <jmleon@eng.sun.com>
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 1999, Andrew n marshall wrote: > Well, font-style is a special case. With colour, you can set each > different element to a different colour and then if they are nested > then there is no problem. Color has THE EXACT SAME PROBLEMS: there is no way to specify the attribute relative to a parent (such as bluer, greener brighter...), therefore you cannot gaurantee an attribute you assign a rule will be different that its parent style after you conside the last style-sheet in the cascade. > Exactly. That is why this is a good feature. (Maybe what we need is > not so much "toggle" as "toggle-italic" and "toggle-oblique".) "toggle-italic" and "toggle-oblique" would be an excellent idea! Andrew n marshall student - artist - programmer "Everyone a mentor, Everyone a pupil"
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