On Aug 30, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote: > Brad Kemper wrote: >> But since the URL of the stylesheet is not an especially useful >> thing to hang a hash value (or whatever that's actually called) on, >> I was thinking it would be more like the path and filename would >> form something like a "base URL" for a property, once it was >> assigned to that property to indicate an image file. If CSS >> declared this to be the case, would it really be a problem for the >> RFCs or any existing style sheets? > > Put that way no to the first and probably not to the second (though > you never know when someone got clever with content negotiation), > but it sounds like you're suggesting using some intermediate > cascaded value (not the specified value, not the computed value, > something entirely different) to assign the base url? That seems > like it would cause problems for CSS itself, in terms of violating > the existing CSS processing model (where for example adding a new > rule that overrides all others and sets the value of a property to > what its computed value is without that rule doesn't change > anything; with your setup it sounds like it might). Yeah, it would have to be a bit of an exception in that sense, or be handled through error handling, perhaps.Received on Monday, 31 August 2009 02:30:36 UTC
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