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Re: [css3-text] Default UA Stylesheet for rt tag

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:12:39 -0700
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDAk7xvndECTwBRpjYOLK+gbLYMBybTYpcybXgmsv7YU6Q@mail.gmail.com>
To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp> wrote:
> Fantasai told me in offline that this is non-issue, because text-decoration property does not inherit[1], so UAs should not render underlines to <rt> tag unless the property is applied to the <rt> tag itself. That makes perfect sense to me.
>
> My colleague told me that both WebKit and IE9 renders underlines to <rt>, I'll tell him that should be an UA issue and should be reported to UA vendors.

This doesn't seem to make sense.  Yes, text-decoration doesn't
inherit, but that's because it instead defines a special propagation
mechanism.  In particular, decorations are propagated to inline
descendants, which <rt> will generally be, I believe.

~TJ
Received on Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:13:30 UTC

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