- From: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 20:40:53 -0500
- To: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org
| Default Attributes
| S5.8.2 <http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-CSS21-20030915/selector.html#q11>
| # EXAMPLE { /*... default property settings ...*/ }
| # Because this selector is less specific than an attribute selector,
| # it will only be used for the default case.
Bert Bos wrote:
>
> The example is a simplification.
It's true that the example assumes no further complications outside
these two rules, but this "simplification" makes assumptions about
conditions *within* the two rules, without even so much as hinting
at them. (It also states what is a contradiction of the tag selector's
definition: that a tag selector alone will only select elements with
default attribute values.)
> It hints at a solution, it doesn't
> give an algorithm that works in all cases.
It hints at a solution, indeed. It also _asserts_ a false assumption:
that the EXAMPLE selector "will only be used for the default case".
I just gave you a revised set of example text. Is it so awkward and
confusing, by explaining the true nature of this workaround -- the
reason it is necessary and the mechanism by which it works, that
you must continue to use such a misleading explanation?
~fantasai
Received on Sunday, 22 February 2004 20:42:45 UTC