- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:02:54 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Jonny Axelsson <jax@opera.no>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Jonny Axelsson wrote: > > I think not displaying the b as font-weight: normal is a Bad Idea, and not > making the font tag orange (assuming X11 support...) is a Bad Idea. > Compromising with a Bad Idea is still a Bad Idea. That it also would involve > a complex rule about which elements in which namespaces will adhere to this > arbitrary rule does not make it any better. > > You will not make future users of CSS happy with this rule (and only a > handful present users). I can tell you're against the proposal, but I can't really tell which side you're on. :-/ Could you clarify your comments? > The only consequence of this is that every author would have to append > !important to every style rule to make the page behave sensibly. That wouldn't help (whichever way we defined things) since the only thing author-!important can override is author-without-!important. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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