Re: [cssom] overwriting an important style

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Mike Sherov <mike.sherov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 05:22 AM, L. David Baron<dbaron@dbaron.org>,
> wrote:
> >> On Monday 2014-09-08 09:32 +0200, Simon Pieters wrote:
> >> > >Can this be changed?
> >> >
> >> > If you can convince David Baron... :-)
> >>
> >> So I do like it the way it is, but I don't think I'm the major
> >> obstacle. I thought that Gecko was the only browser that does it
> >> the way you want (thanks to Zack's change a number of years ago),
> >> and all the others match my understanding. Are those other browsers
> >> willing to change? (Or is my memory wrong?)
> >
> > FF is the only browser that doesn't match spec here and does what I want.
> > The jQuery team opened bugs for this against WebKit, Blink, and IE.
>
> The last time this came up, didn't someone do a survey of all the JS
> code on Github or something like that, and find that nearly all code
> that uses this API assumed it worked the way it does in Firefox right
> now?  That seems like a pretty compelling argument for changing the
> spec all by itself, if you ask me.
>

So where do we go from here? I'll say again, I'm fairly certain a few
browsers would be happy to address this bug if we can agree it is one and
address this in the spec.


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Mike Sherov