- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:44:10 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
> From: Peter S. Linss [SMTP:peter@linss.com] > > The feature is already built in, it's called the cascade and forward > compatible parsing. > [DJW:] The problem with this is that it works on an attribute by attribue basis, so you can't provide an alternative to a missing feature, only provide fallback values for partly implemented attributes. In addition, there are probably no complete implementations of any one version, so fallback by version is not enough. What is really needed sometimes is the ability to have all or nothing processing, so that a fallback is applied for all attributes/pseudo elements if any is not implemented. I seem to remember that a mis-implementation in one browser maeant that the balance of a rule was ignored following an unknown attribute. Although this was an error, it did allow some level of multi-attribute fallback. -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS. >
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