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Re: Style Sheets (was: lynx-dev Old timer ? (was too long))
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Al Gilman |
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Re: Style Sheets (was: lynx-dev Old timer ? (was too long)) |
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Sun, 19 Jul 1998 09:54:40 -0400 (EDT) |
to follow up on what David Woolley said:
> Note that some aspects of style sheets shouldn't be implemented in Lynx,
> e.g. absolute positioning probably doesn't make sense - the real benefit is
> that well designed pages can fall back gracefully without having to have
> multiple versions of the page. Lynx probably wants to implement !important
> (overriding style) and may need to have a !!!important, to override abuses
> of !important!
With CSS2 you shouldn't need !!!important because the precedence
on !important clauses has been flipped from CSS1 and the user's
!important now wins over the author's in cases of a clash.
Al