Chris Williams wrote:

> This is just wrong.  It [the <html> element] inherits the defaults from the 
> browser.

>From the W3C [1] :

> 6.2 Inheritance
> 
> Some values are inherited by the children of an element in the document tree, 
> as described above. Each property defines whether it is inherited or not. 

As the browser is not an element in the document tree, the <html>
element cannot inherit any properties from it.  It may well acquire
them in some other way, but this is not inheritance /qua/ inheritance.

Philip Taylor
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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#inheritance
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