Pfffttt.... Semantics.

On 6/27/13 11:14 AM, "Philip Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote:

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>John A. Johnson wrote:
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>> On Jun 27, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Philip Taylor <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> Isn't it the case that browser defaults show themselves in elements
>> unless those elements are told differently by CSS?
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>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
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