Re: SVGT 1.2: !important is an error

On Thursday, January 12, 2006, 11:07:30 AM, Anne wrote:

AvK> Quoting Ola Andersson <Ola.Andersson@ikivo.com>:
>> Thanks for your comment but we believe the spec is correct as is. The
>> spec just says that !important isn't supported within presentation
>> attributes. A presentation attribute isn't a stylesheet so the
>> restriction doesn't break compatibility with CSS.

AvK> Wasn't it so that till now the thought was that the CSS parser could 
AvK> somehow be
AvK> reused for attribute values as well? 

Yes, but that does not mean that the contents of the attribute is an entire stylesheet. Or even a declaration block (like the style attribute). Its a property value.


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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
 Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
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Received on Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:59:06 UTC