Re: [CSS3] Generated content: environment variables

Ludger Bünger wrote:
> And regarding Boris' concerns about users possibly losing control:
> 
> Last time I checked the standard, 'user important' stylesheets were the 
> very highest in the cascade...
> I'm not aware anyone ever considered changing this...

So what you're telling me as a web browser implementor is that I should just 
make my UA's print header/footer settings be !important rules in the user 
stylesheet?  That effectively means completely removing all support for 
header/footers as far as web page authors are concerned.

While I'm personally OK with that, perhaps, I do think that fantasai's use cases 
have merit.  Your proposal would in fact prevent them from being usable on the 
web.  While I appreciate your desire to use CSS in your non-web software, I 
think web requirements should take precedence.  In particular, perhaps we should 
think about a way for the user's and the page's header/footer settings to 
interact that is somewhat more reasonable than just "one or the other has full 
control, and whichever one doesn't has no say in it at all".

-Boris