- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:36:58 -0700
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Monday 2011-10-31 12:06 -0700, fantasai wrote: > And would that be more, less, or equally useful as a value that simply means > ''initial''/''inherit'' (depending on whether the property inherits by default)? > That idea was proposed by dbaron here: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2002OctDec/0191.html For the record, that message was: # From: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu> # Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 17:15:55 -0400 # To: w3c-css-wg@w3.org # Message-ID: <20021020171555.A22654@is01.fas.harvard.edu> # # Would it be useful to have a 'default' value, defined to be equivalent # to 'inherit' for properties that are inherited by default and equivalent # to 'initial' for properties that are not inherited by default? This # might be easier for authors to use than 'initial' and 'inherit' since it # wouldn't require thinking about whether a property is inherited by # default or not (which isn't obvious for some properties, such as # text-decoration and visibility). # # -David # # -- # L. David Baron <URL: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/ > -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂
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