- From: Ian Hickson <ianh@netscape.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 07:23:29 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- To: Matthew Brealey <webmaster@richinstyle.com>
- cc: www-style@w3.org
On 16 Oct 2000, Matthew Brealey wrote: >>>> Check CSS3 proposals again. >> http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-css3-userint-20000216.html#color > > Yes. But that says border-style takes its value from the UI. And > border: windowborder wouldn't work [...] because "'border-style' are > still given values taken from the system", but border-style doesn't > allow images. But "'border-style' are still given values taken from the system" does not say that those values must be CSS values. Just like with fonts, if you say font:button and that font has some OS 'outlined' bit set, there will be no way to tell from looking at the font from the CSS DOM. >>>> although David Baron and I have proposed ::inside and >>>> ::outside to make this easier (see archives). >>> >>> Yes, although it was :inside and :outside, rather than the slightly >>> pointless and confusing ::inside. >> >> Reread the selectors draft proposal. Pseudo-elements now have two colons >> to separate them from pseudo-classes in extensible implementations thus >> allowing for more efficient rule matching. > > I've read it. The point was that you/David proposed one colon, whereas > the current proposal uses two, which you used here. Well yes, the proposal was made before the change. I hereby change my proposal to match the new syntax. (I thought your point was that it was slightly pointless and confusing, not that I took into account current developments when referring to past proposals.) -- Ian Hickson )\ _. - ._.) fL Netscape, Standards Compliance QA /. `- ' ( `--' +1 650 937 6593 `- , ) - > ) \ irc.mozilla.org:Hixie _________________________ (.' \) (.' -' __________
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