- From: Sjoerd Visscher <sjoerd@heeten.nl>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 18:53:34 +0200
- To: "www-style" <www-style@w3.org>
Sorry about that previous message, I accidentally pressed Ctrl+Enter
> THE SYNTAX:
>
> There are several ways of extending the current CSS syntax in a manner
> compatible with the forwards-compatible parsing of CSS1 to specify
> that the cascade should be supplemental and not replacing. Here is
> one, which uses syntax similar to the proposal for specifying minimum
> and maximum values:
>
> property : values values ! supplement; /* e.g., counter-increment */
> property : values, values ! supplement; /* e.g., font-family */
>
> Another is to fiddle with the colon:
>
> property +: values values; /* e.g., counter-increment */
> property +: values, values; /* e.g., font-family */
>
Is 'old-values()' an option?
like:
property : values old-values();
property : values, old-values();
property : old-values() values;
Q { quotes: "'" "'"; }
Q { quotes: "<<" ">>" old-values() '"' '"'; }
But I don't know about CSS1 compatability.
Sjoerd Visscher
Received on Thursday, 7 October 1999 12:56:22 UTC