[css2] Rewrote the section on non-css presentatinal information to go beyond

howcom · howcom · commit df2fdcac9524 · 1997-11-04T14:15:37.000Z
HTML attributes

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diff --git a/css2/cascade.src b/css2/cascade.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: cascade.src,v 1.18 1997-10-30 08:28:59 ian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: cascade.src,v 1.19 1997-11-04 14:15:37 howcome Exp $ -->
 <HEAD>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <TITLE>Cascade</TITLE>
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 <H1 align="center">Cascade</H1>
 
 <P> In CSS, more than one style sheet can simultaneously influence a
-document's presentation and rules from these style sheets may overlap
+the presentation of a document and rules from these style sheets may overlap
 in scope (e.g., two rules that apply to the same element specify a
 font size). CSS resolves these conflicts by assigning a weight to each
 style rule and when several rules apply, choosing the one with the
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ the following algorithm:
 <OL>
     <LI>
       Find all declarations that apply to the element/property in
-      question.  Declarations apply if the selector matches the
+      question.  Declarations apply if the associated selector 
+      <A HREF="selector.html">matches</A> the
       element in question. If no declarations apply, terminate
       the algorithm.
 
@@ -65,10 +66,9 @@ the following algorithm:
     <LI>
       Sort by specificity of selector: more specific selectors will
       override more general ones. The definition and calculation of
-      specificity is object-language dependent.
-
-       	<P> Pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes are counted as normal
-       	elements and classes, respectively.  
+      specificity is object-language dependent. Pseudo-elements and 
+      pseudo-classes are counted as normal elements and classes, 
+      respectively.  
 
     <LI> Sort by order specified: if two rules have the same weight,
     the latter specified wins. Rules in imported style sheets are
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ information.)
 
 <P> This strategy gives author's style sheets considerably higher
 weight than those of the reader. It is therefore important that the
-user agent give the user the ability to turn off the influence of a
+User agent gives the user the ability to turn off the influence of a
 certain style sheet, e.g., through a pull-down menu.
 
 <H3><a name="important-rules">'Important' rules</a></H3>
@@ -162,16 +162,18 @@ declaration in the "style" attribute will override the one in the
 STYLE element because of cascading rule number 5.
 </div>
 
-<H3>Precedence of document language attributes</H3> 
-<P> The UA may choose to honor other attributes of the document language
-(e.g., HTML presentational attribute such as "align"). If so, these
-attributes are translated to the corresponding CSS rules with
-specificity equal to 1. The rules are assumed to be at the start of
-the author style sheet and may be overridden by subsequent style sheet
-rules.
+<H3>Precedence of non-CSS presentational hints</H3> 
+
+<P>The UA may choose to honor presentational hints from other sources
+than style sheets, for example the FONT element or the "align"
+attribute in HTML. If so, the non-CSS presentational hints must be
+translated to the corresponding CSS rules with specificity equal to
+1. The rules are assumed to be at the start of the author style sheet
+and may be overridden by subsequent style sheet rules.
+
+<div class="note">
 
-<div class="note"><P>
-<em><strong>Note.</strong>
+<P><em><strong>Note.</strong>
 In a transition phase, this policy will make it easier for
 stylistic attributes to coexist with style sheets.
 </em>
