John A. Johnson wrote:
> > On Jun 27, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Philip Taylor <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> > 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 [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
