- From: Me <theirf@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:53:53 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
"However it's not a reason to stop progress and do nothing; the sooner we add a feature, the sooner we (or, well, our successors) will be able to use it."
Completely Agree. Sorry for keeping it simple, but I am all for this philosophy in CSS
On 6Jan, 2012, at 1:24 pm, Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com wrote:
> 06.01.2012, 12:19, "David Woolley" <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>:
>> Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com wrote:
>>
>>> A probable usable option is to add @important to CSS spec but limit its application to user stylesheets only.
>>
>> As I see it, user style sheets are an abstraction of the capabilities of
>> the browser, so all that really matters about them is what they can do.
>> Browsers can extend the syntax, or even make them only accessible via
>> GUI operations.
>
> It turns out that it probably makes sense to request something like @-moz-important {} in Mozilla's bug tracker (I use Firefox).
>
>> The other thing about any redundant syntactic alternative is that you
>> can only safely use it after ten to twenty years, as you cannot rely on
>> everyone updating their software (particularly older users).
>
> I'm far from thinking that I personally will meet with anything discussed here being widely implemented. However it's not a reason to stop progress and do nothing; the sooner we add a feature, the sooner we (or, well, our successors) will be able to use it.
>
Received on Monday, 9 January 2012 23:51:51 UTC