Re: [CSS21] response to issue 174

Bert Bos wrote:

> This is the CSS WG's response to an issue you raised on the last CSS
> 2.1 draft (http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-CSS21-20030915). We want to
> publish CSS 2.1 as a CR in about two weeks. Please let us know this
> week if you think our response is wrong.
> 
> Your e-mail:
>     http://www.w3.org/mid/3F94ED06.5060006@escape.com
> 
>     # Stacking contexts are not necessarily related to containing blocks.
>     # In future levels of CSS, other properties may introduce stacking
>     # contexts, for example 'opacity'.
> 
>     The second sentence should not have [an example].
> 
> CSS WG response:
>     No change. We disagree.

The reason I say you should not have an example is because
referring to a CSS3 property in a CSS2 specification creates
unnecessary dependencies between the two and should thus
generally be avoided.

If you need to specify somewhere that CSS3's 'opacity' creates
a stacking context, specify it in CSS3's 'opacity' description,
not here.

~fantasai

Received on Friday, 13 February 2004 14:44:52 UTC