- From: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:01:27 +0200
- To: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:02:54 +0200, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> wrote: > How does a program obtain a reference to an "abstract view" besides > document.defaultView? The assumption seems to be that the global object implements AbstractView, otherwise, how would 'document' give a reference to an implementation of DocumentView? > The DOM 2 spec does not say that there is a global function > "getComputedStyle". Why rely on it? Well, I can't find any place where it says that there is a global "document" either. >>> A corresponding method to set a value would not seem to be necessary, >>> as any value could be set with: >>> >>> x.style.color = "papayawhip"; >> >> Well, not if there's an !important color declaration somewhere that >> affects >> x. > > OK. What are you getting at? Just pointing out that it doesn't always work, nothing more. -- Øyvind Stenhaug Core Norway, Opera Software ASA
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