- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:40:24 -0700
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Florian Rivoal <florianr@opera.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com> wrote: > [Florian Rivoal:] >> I am rather thinking that browser should not include these many predefined >> counters at all, and the informative note (preferably published together >> with a css file with the recommended counters) be published for authors to >> use. > > I suppose this all boils down to why we don't want to define this normatively. > If we think it'd be harmful for browsers to ship with these definitions built-in > then I'm not sure why we'd want to tell authors to use them. I still think some > of these definitions could be normative; others may not be. I'd rather not throw > out the former because of the latter. The argument is that there's no need to clutter up browser code with a hundred or so counter styles when any given user will only need the common ones plus one or two of the uncommon ones. I disagree, but the argument is reasonable. ~TJ
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