Dylan Schiemann wrote:
> In the following text:
>
> "This is important for compatibility with legacy
> browsers that do not fully understand shorthand
> properties ('border-width' for instance is a shorthand
> for 'border-left-width' 'border-right-width'
> 'border-top-width' and 'border-bottom-width' ), with a
> value between 1 to 4 instead of four separate
> declarations (it saves space and improves
> readability)."
>
> what is meant when you say that it has a value between
> 1 to 4? What has a value between 1 to 4?
Oops! I meant "...with n values instead of n separate...". Thanks for
reporting, Dylan. Will be fixed tonight.
> Regarding support for inline styles, I think it would
> be better to encourage the use of classes or do so by
> default, but being able to specify inline styles is
> definitley needed.
Yes. When the user want to italicize one word only in a
document, you probably don't want to make a class only
for that.
> Regarding MS Word as a testcase showing that it is
> better to not style selections, I could not disagree
> more. Word is a painful example for how to style
> documents.
Not sure that all users would agree with that. It is anyway
the most widely used style mechanism in the world... People
having no knowledge at all of documentation and style languages
are able to use it (ok, after a quite long training :-).
</Daniel>
