- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:56:16 -0800
- To: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@googlemail.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@googlemail.com> wrote:
> In http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-lists/#html4, we have
>
> /* Box Model Rules */
> ol, ul {
> display: block;
> margin: 1em 0;
> padding-left: 40px;
> }
>
> which results in a fixed padding-left, whereas other dimensions (e.g. the
> margin here, as well as that on li::marker later) are expressed using 'em',
> so that they scale with font size.
I was just copying implementations when I wrote that. (Or maybe I
copied it from the 2.1 stylesheet?)
> This can of course be modified by an author (as above), but ISTM that a
> change to the default UA stylesheet would result in better default behavior
> for naive content. Is there any possibility we could make such a change, or
> is it likely it would break too many things?
It would change the rendering of a *lot* of lists on the web, and
probably in a way that causes mild rendering glitches.
~TJ
Received on Tuesday, 25 February 2014 00:57:03 UTC