On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Paul Arzul wrote: > > is it unfortunate that the html4 stylesheet is only informative? perhaps > html5 could then consider giving us a normative default user agent > stylesheet - or at least a normative version with only display > properties.
The spec has a semi-normative one now. User agents aren't required to follow it, because we never know when they might apply styles for particular users with special needs. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
