Re: "inherit"

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Tantek [ISO-8859-1] Çelik wrote:
>
> Ian wrote:
>> In practice, even with properties where it is well defined, UA developers
>> have found it useful to have a value that represents the initial value
>> independent of what that value actually is.
>
> I strongly disagree, and I am a UA developer.

You might not have found it useful yourself, but my statement, that UA
developers have found it useful, is factually correct.


> If a particular UA developer needs a convenience value, they can simply
> introduce -vnd-initial or some such equivalent.

I believe Mozilla have done this (-moz-initial).


> Polluting an *authoring* language for the benefit of UA developers
> doesn't make any sense.

I have often needed the feature in my own stylesheets, so this would
certainly not only be for UA developers.

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Received on Tuesday, 29 July 2003 03:52:46 UTC