- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:32:35 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Saturday 17 January 2009 22:47, L. David Baron wrote:
> On Friday 2008-12-19 11:01 -0500, L. David Baron wrote:
> [ in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Dec/0156.html
> ]
>
> > (2) seems significantly harder to implement than (1) or (3).
>
> Actually, it turns out (2) isn't that hard to implement [1]. I
> think it's also the intent of the current spec.
>
> So I retract my request for a spec change here.
>
> However, I think a clarification would be useful. I propose to
> add the words "For example" to the beginning of the following text
> (which is currently *all* within <div class="example">):
> # A value of 'none' for the 'list-style' property sets both
> # 'list-style-type' and 'list-style-image' to 'none':
> #
> # ul { list-style: none }
> #
> # The result is that no list-item marker is displayed.
> and then immediately before it the normative text:
> # A value of 'none' within the 'list-style' property sets
> # whichever of 'list-style-type' and 'list-style-image' are not
> # otherwise specified to 'none'. However, if both are otherwise
> # specified, the declaration is in error (and thus ignored).
I think that indeed captures the implied meaning of 'none'. But the last
sentence seems redundant. It's just another syntax error.
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474135
Bert
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