- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 05:38:28 -0800 (PST)
- To: Etan Wexler <ewexler@stickdog.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Etan Wexler wrote: >>> The specification needs to specify exactly which elements confer the >>> permission to deviate from the box model. As it stands, an implementor >>> could claim that 'p' and 'div' elements are the "certain elements" >>> mentioned in the specification. >> >> Yes, they could, but they'd be the laughing stock of the CSS community. > > True though that be, I remain unsatisfied. What we need is not a > laughingstock but a set of clear conformance criteria. If the > criteria are not only clear but strict too, the CSS community is > all the better for it. If you can come up with criteria that are suitable, it is likely that they will be used. However, personally I consider the current text suitable, because in practice humiliation is just as good an incentive to compliance as is watertight normative text... -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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