- From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:24:26 +0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 1:55 pm, Coises wrote: | [Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:50:29 +0200] Håkon Wium Lie: [snip] | | 2. Many (though not all) of the "presentational variables" in a browser | can be expressed in terms of CSS. (Examples of things which can be | expressed in CSS are the default color of text, the default presentation of | unvisited, visited and hovering links and the default font used for PRE | elements; examples of things which cannot be expressed in CSS are the | specific fonts to be used for the CSS generic font families, the actual | value corresponding to "font-size: small" and the color of the canvas.) It You *can't* and *shouldn't* express "font-size: small" in CSS! I use following settings in my browser: Konqueror browser->Appearance->Font size Minimum Font size: 7 [pt] Maximum Font size: 10 All this is controlled from the Preferences (Settings) dialog. If someone want *bigger* fonts for "font-size: small" , he can tune it in this dialog. For the same reason, default font names (Arial/Helvetica for SanSerif, Times/TNR for Serif) are not hard-coded in html4.css You select font names in Preferences dialog, too. | was actually you, Håkon, who once suggested (on another mailing list) that | it would be desirable if Opera could express as many as possible of the | user-controllable presentational variables as user style sheets. | Customization of presentation in the browser would then be largely | encapsulated by user style sheet handling --- the number of "special" | variables to be implemented piecemeal would be limited to those which | could not be expressed in CSS. I thought this was a good idea --- but it Is there any list somewhere describing proposed variables? | would be complicated by this change, since (as demonstrated in point 1) | many defaults could no longer be expressed in a user style sheet. It would | be necessary to provide a separate "hook" into the user agent default style | sheet to implement presentational defaults, thus making a much "messier" | model than one which simply expresses user choices as a user style sheet. -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
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