[CSS21] [Section 6.2.1] inherit keyword versus specified value instead of computed value of its parent's property

Hello,

The Proposed Recommendation of CSS 2.1 changed important words in section
6.2.1 [1], which are highlighted in green and red+striken in C.8.49:

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/changes.html#q543

My question relates to this sentence:

"
Each property may also have a cascaded value of 'inherit', which means
that, for a given element, the property takes the same specified value as
the property for the element's parent.
"
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#value-def-inherit

"the property takes the same computed value" [2]
has been replaced with
"the property takes the same specified value" [1]
which makes a huge difference. Consider now this test:

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110323/html4/border-width-011.htm

  <style type="text/css">
   body { border-width: 2em; }
   p { border-width: inherit; border-style: solid; border-color: red;
color: green; }
  </style>
 </head>
 <body>
  <p>This line should be green with no red present.</p>

The specified border-width value of <p>'s parent (which is <body>) is 2em.
The computed border-width value of <p>'s parent is 0 because border-style
is 'none'.

So, with the previous definition, a value of 0 was inherited but now, it
seems that UA should apply a 2em value to p's border width.

Can someone explain all this? What am I missing?

I searched the list of issues
http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1
and did not find anything related to section 6.2.1.

regards, Gérard
[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#value-def-inherit
[2]: 20101207 WD:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-CSS2-20101207/cascade.html#value-def-inherit
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Received on Tuesday, 17 May 2011 19:45:19 UTC