- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:34:55 +0000 (GMT)
- To: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, fantasai wrote: > > This is an example of dependency between two CSS rules. > If one goes and the other stays, the result is worse than > having neither. It's a problem that shows up in pure CSS > as well, but not so severely. (You might wind up, for > example, with white text on a white background. This has > been brought up before. [1]) > > Does XBL have a way to avoid this situation? > The more general question would be "how can CSS's cascading > be adjusted to handle such dependencies?" As you point out, this isn't an XBL problem. There have been several proposed solutions, none satisfactory. Ideas welcome. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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