Re: [CSS21] Status of defult (intrinsic) style sheet in UA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
To: "Andrew Fedoniouk" <news@terrainformatica.com>
Cc: "Simon Pieters" <zcorpan@hotmail.com>; <www-style@w3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [CSS21] Status of defult (intrinsic) style sheet in UA


|
| Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
| > Well then logic of definition is not clear.
| >
| > These two statements:
| >
| > 1) "User agent: Conforming user agents must apply a default style sheet (or
| > behave
| > as if they did) *prior to all other style sheets* for a document....."

"Must apply prior to all other" means that we have clearly two steps and two
different systems of styles: 1) UA default 2) all other.

| >
| > 2) "# Sort by importance (normal or important) and origin (author, user,
| >  or user agent). In ascending order:...."

And hear we are mixing them into one system and applying them again.
What is the purpose to have them combined?

| >
| > are conradicting each other. Aren't they?
|
| Not that I can see.  Where is the contradiction?
|
| -Boris
|

Andrew Fedoniouk.
http://terrainformatica.com

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