>> That's why now in the new theme I'm creating I'm setting everything to be an user agent stylesheet.
> and this is probably the right approach. Correct. That's why I agree with John and why the current behavior is likely undesired. :-) On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 7:40 PM Andy Goryachev <andy.goryac...@oracle.com> wrote: > > That's why now in the new theme I'm creating I'm setting everything to > be an user agent stylesheet. > > > > and this is probably the right approach. > > > > -andy > > > > > > > > *From: *openjfx-dev <openjfx-dev-r...@openjdk.org> on behalf of Pedro > Duque Vieira <pedro.duquevie...@gmail.com> > *Date: *Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 11:28 > *To: *openjfx-dev@openjdk.org <openjfx-dev@openjdk.org> > *Subject: *Re: [External] : Re: CSS Lookups and their origins (possible > regression) > > Hi guys, > > > > I agree with John Hendrikx on this. > > > > The thing is not that you override the "css variable" value but that you > end up overriding the priority of the rules in Modena which the developer > won't likely want to. > > > > One other thing I'd add is that developers also like to use css > themselves. If modena rules suddenly start to have the priority of AUTHOR > this becomes much harder. They have to make their rules always more > specific than Modena's that now have increased priority besides the fact > that they need to be aware that this is actually happening and is the > problem (in my experience many developers won't know this). > > > > On a related note, I created a theme called JMetro. When implementing it I > made it so that it was composed of author stylesheets (there wasn't a way > to set it as a user agent stylesheet back when I started). That's also how > 90% of themes work. > > However this is an issue as developers wanting to override styles set by > JMetro will have a hard time figuring out how to make their rules > specificity in their CSS higher than JMetro's so they get overridden (I've > had complaints on this). That's why now in the new theme I'm creating I'm > setting everything to be an user agent stylesheet. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Pedro Duque Vieira (Duke) - https://www.pixelduke.com > -- Pedro Duque Vieira (Duke) - https://www.pixelduke.com
