- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:28:26 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Orion Adrian wrote: > > I'd like to understand _why_ we're sticking to this system. Because no backwards-compatible improvement has been found that doesn't have worse problems than the existing situation, mostly. > The structures we're working on do not behave this way. They are not > single property structures, but rather multi-property structures. For > example color/background color should always be set together, but > inherit seperatly and are set seperately. There are cases where you only want to set one. That's part of the problem. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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