- From: Daniel Glazman <glazou_2000@yahoo.fr>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:54:52 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
Looking back to the P language (the style language used by Grif, Symposia and Amaya (?)), I still regret one of its wonderful features. It was possible, in the P language, to set the value of a property in function of the value of another property assigned to the parent element, the next element, the previous element, and so on. For instance : width = previous.width + 0.5cm That mechanism was not so simple to implement in the Grif editing tools but allowed to produce very powerful and professional stylesheets. I dream of a similar mechanism in CSS. That mechanism could be achieved by the use of selectors on the right side of a declaration. For instance (still dreaming) : color : inherit(TABLE.header) or even color : inherit(BODY, background-color) Inheritance could also be completely deferred. For instance : inherit : inherit(HEADER) All inherited values would then come from the first HEADER element in the document... It does not break the usual inheritance and specifity mechanisms of CSS. Miam ! Just an old dream... Don't flame too strong :-) </Daniel> ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Achetez, vendez! À votre prix! Sur http://encheres.yahoo.fr
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