Re: DefaultStyleSheet05: (was Default (informal) Style Sheet)

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Current votes: None.


At 14:43 +0900 UTC, on 2007-04-02, Karl Dubost wrote:

> Le 2 avr. 2007 =E0 13:24, Mike Schinkel a =E9crit :
>>    http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/DefaultStyleSheet05
>
> About Default StyleSheet:
>
> Let's say there is a Default CSS in the HTML Specification, I see
> some possible requirements:
>
> - CSS definitions are NOT normative

Absolutely, but then still the spec would be giving authors the impressio=
n
they can rely on certain presentation defaults, which IMO would be a bad
signal to give. I'd much rather see the spec define a 'CSS zapper' and st=
ate
that author CSS must/should include one.

> - CSS properties are limited to a certain number of informations:
> size, font, etc. (but no colors for example.)

Defining a default font-size will only lead to sites that do not scale we=
ll
when the user changed to another default. The spec would only be
contributing to more of what's out there today way too often already: tex=
t
that doesn't fit some anticipated space, and thus overlaps other content.
Result: inusability.

The same applies to margins, paddings, lineheight, etc.


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