- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 21:45:27 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> If we can't assume people will read all the key parts of the You can't. Most authors using CSS, even if they actually see the CSS code, will never look at the specification. Of the remainder, most will use it as a reference document and only look at specific sections when they want clarification. Formal specifications are thought too technical by most people using them; most people want cook books. The only thing you can probably rely on is that someone on a commercial browser development team will have read most of the parts that look like they should be relevant, and that most of the people on an open source development will have read some part of it. The level of HTML compliance in authoring tools suggests that you can't rely on their designers to read things thoroughly. > specification, then we might as well give up: we can never specify > everything everywhere.
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