- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:04:13 -0600
- To: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- CC: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, www-style@w3.org, www-svg@w3.org
Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > it seems clear to me at least from your responses that specificity is a > clear example where the w3c process has not considered users needs. I'm not quite sure what in my response gave you that idea. I can see where you might have gotten that idea from David's response, but I think his statement was incorrect. If you look at the history of the specificity section, user needs were definitely considered -- this is why user stylesheet !important rules override all author rules. Didn't use to be that way in the early drafts. ;) > from an initial consideration of accessibility, the user being non- > technical needs a simple style sheet that works out of the box across > the web, if it is to be of any use at all. A simple stylesheet that does what? -Boris
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