- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 09:12:02 -0700
- To: Reg Me Please <regmeplease@gmail.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org list" <www-style@w3.org>
On Apr 9, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Brad Kemper wrote: >> CSS can be extended this way: columns CAN BE parents of cells (just >> like >> rows are), despite their position in the syntax tag flow. >> I think that once you accept this concept, everything can fit. > > Everything about how CSS selects items to style them assumes one > parent per element. If you think that it is so important to parse > additional style information from a backwards, goofy, ill-conceived > tag, rather than use a more reasonable method, then you are free to > write your own browser to do so. Because I don't think anyone else > is at all likely to do so without significant reason, which you have > not presented. I'm sorry if that sounded harsh. Your comments and viewpoints are welcome. But this particular point about COL style is a nonstarter, due to the basic nature of CSS and HTML (and other markup languages in general).
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