- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:00:40 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Wednesday, Jul 23, 2003, at 13:51 US/Pacific, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Todd Fahrner wrote: > >> The sample sheet in CSS1 is more prescriptive than descriptive of >> common UA behavior. The px values in CSS2 are simply descriptive of >> what Mosaic-derivative UAs use(d). > - - >>> And moving back to a small value like >>> 1.12 is strange too. >> >> That is also based on empirical measurement of legacy behavior, and >> does not represent a recommendation. > > So how should we understand the words "Developers are encouraged to > use it > as a default style sheet in their implementations."? It is naive, but obviously enough so that I don't think there's much danger of it being taken to heart. Less naively, I think it represents an assertion that cross-UA renderings for the screen media type (at least) *should* be more alike than not in the absence of author or user styles.
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