- From: Silas S. Brown <ssb22@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:49:00 +0100
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Hi, Jukka K. Korpela writes: > What would be needed is a rule that says (globally or for > the elements that match a given selector, or set of > selectors) "if property P has value X, then use the > initial value for P instead, and set property Q to value > Y". (This would involve primitive programming, in a sense, > and would take CSS a little closer to a programming > language. I don't think this should be an obstacle, but > others might.) OK, then why not recommend that the user be able to write some Javascript (a scripting language that is already common in most browsers) that manipulates the properties of the elements before rendering? Of course, that would mean standardising some way of allowing the script to access the CSS data structures (sort of like DOM but different). Best wishes, Silas -- Silas S Brown, St John's College Cambridge UK http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~ssb22 "A fool will believe anything" - Proverbs 14:15 (TEV)
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