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Bug 22124 - The concept of “presentational hints” is an unnecessary complication. The theoretical difference that it makes is that a user style sheet does not override such a hint unless it uses !important, [...]
Summary: The concept of “presentational hints” is an unnecessary complication. The th...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: CSS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Cascading and Inheritance (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Håkon Wium Lie
QA Contact: public-css-bugzilla
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard: whatwg-resolved
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Reported: 2013-05-21 17:17 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2016-03-06 09:51 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-05-21 17:17:40 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-css-user-agent-style-sheet-and-presentational-hints
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-css-user-agent-style-sheet-and-presentational-hints
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
The concept of	“presentational hints” is an unnecessary complication. The
theoretical difference that it makes is that a user style sheet does not
override such a hint unless it uses !important, but this is rather implicit.
And there is no evident reason why presentational markup should be stronger
against user style sheets than the default effects of normal HTML markup.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-06-11 22:05:21 UTC 
This seems like feedback for the CSS specs, not HTML. HTML is just trying to follow what CSS says.