- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 00:06:16 +1100
- To: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
David Dorward wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 10:32 -0600, Lonnie Best wrote:
>
>> and it will alphabetically organize and format the sheet.
>
> Changing the order of style declarations can alter the way a page is
> rendered, the prime example being:
>
> a:link { color: red; }
> a:visited { color: white; }
> a:hover { color: blue; }
Oh, it gets worse than that. It attempts to alphabetise the properties
within each declaration:
Input:
a:link { color: red; background-color: red; background: green; }
a:hover { color: green; }
Output:
a:hover
{
color: green;
}
a:link
{
background: green;
background-color: red;
color: red;
}
> I'm afraid that this renders the practical value of the tool as
> practically nil.
Indeed.
--
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
Received on Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:06:47 UTC