[whatwg] Warnings for non-applicable properties

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Tue Feb 10 17:33:31 PST 2009


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,
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