Re: [css4-ui] Styling the caret from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2011-11-30 (www-style@w3.org from November 2011)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:03:57 -0800
To: tantek@cs.stanford.edu
Cc: Lea Verou <leaverou@gmail.com>, "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDDFq8Xe2EDQ-QuUKgwj7nY6KcUwaTXXNswzk5TpwF5vjA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> I'd tend to disagree. 'color' doesn't need auto. It's different from 'outline' in many ways (typically more content than interface).
>
> Also, we use UA default stylesheets to often define default behavior rather than putting 'auto' on every property.

Hm.  Actually, you're right.  'auto' values are used not when the
value is just UA-dependent (because UA stylesheets handle that fine)
but rather when the default value depends on other stuff.  This "other
stuff" may also be UA-dependent, of course.

~TJ

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