On Nov 4, 2007, at 5:59 AM, Keryx Web wrote:

Matthew Paul Thomas skrev:

To allow this on the Web, the CSS font-style property would need to have not just "normal", "italic", and "oblique" values, but also an "italic-inverse" value. Browsers should then use this value by default for any inline element where they currently use "italic".

No problem!

i {
    font-style: italic;
}

i i {
    font-style: normal;
}
...

We're getting off-topic here, but ... That wouldn't deitalicize <cite><i>, <em><i>, <i><cite>, <i><dfn>, <i><em>, or <i><var>, when it should. As the levels of nesting increased, the number of permutations of these elements would explode. And it's not reasonable to expect any author who uses "someblockelement {font-style: italic;}" to remember to also define "someblockelement cite, someblockelement dfn, someblockelement em, someblockelement i, someblockelement var {font-style: normal}".

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/

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