Re: [css-counter-styles] question about redefining predefined styles

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> According to the spec, it seems that all predefined styles except
>>>> 'decimal' could be redefined by authors via @counter-style. My
>>>> question is that, should the new defination affect other predefined
>>>> styles depend on it? For example, if 'cjk-decimal' is redefined,
>>>> should 'japanese-informal' fallback to the predefined 'cjk-decimal' or
>>>> the new one? I prefer it to only depend on the name, which means the
>>>> new one wins here.
>>>>
>>>> I think this behavior, including the redefinablity of predefined
>>>> styles, should be clearly noted in section "'@counter-style' rule".
>>>
>>> Yes, it depends only on the name.  This is already specified, in that
>>> the 'fallback' descriptor only talks about names, and the normative
>>> definitions of the various types all use the normal 'fallback'
>>> descriptor.  Nothing else needs to be said, normatively.
>>>
>>> I could add a note somewhere if you think it's unclear, though.  If
>>> you'd like this, where do you think it would be appropriate?
>>
>> I think the note should follow the paragraph with the term
>> '<counter-style-name>' highlight.
>
> Do you mean this paragraph?
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-counter-styles/#typedef-counter-style-name

That's right.

- Xidorn

Received on Monday, 24 February 2014 22:26:39 UTC