- From: John Lewis <lewi0371@mrs.umn.edu>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:36:20 -0600
- To: www-style@w3.org
Shelby wrote on Sunday, January 5, 2003 at 11:55:59 AM: > Wrong. CSS can do non-conforming per an exact quote from CSS spec!! > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#display-prop > "Conforming HTML user agents may ignore the 'display' property." > Thus CSS "display" controls semantics because it admits it is not > conforming (in this case). I disagree, for a very simple reason: CSS does not say *why* UAs may ignore the display property. You assume it's because doing so would cause them to be nonconforming. I assume it's because UAs that have gone to the trouble of implementing all of CSS except the display property should be allowed to call themselves conforming UAs. We're both equally wrong to assume anything. At face value, the sentence is a grant of power to HTML UAs, and nothing more. [Since there was so much of your reply I agreed to, instead of copying it and writing "I agree" sixteen times, I simply deleted those parts and only responded to the one part I disagree with.] -- John
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