Pfffttt.... Semantics. On 6/27/13 11:14 AM, "Philip Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >John A. Johnson wrote: > >> >> On Jun 27, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Philip Taylor <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> >> Isn't it the case that browser defaults show themselves in elements >> unless those elements are told differently by CSS? > >Yes, it is, but as I wrote above "this is not inheritance /qua/ >>> inheritance". We are discussing CSS, and within this particular >universe of discourse, "inheritance" has a very specific meaning >(just as "to draw a distinction" has a very specific meaning >when discussing /The Laws of /Form/). Elements have certain >default renderings which they acquire from the browser, but >they do not /inherit/ those renderings from the browser in >the CSS sense of "inherit". > >Philip Taylor >______________________________________________________________________ >css-discuss [[email protected]] >http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d >List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ >List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html >Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
