Re: Thoughts on monopoly sizing

David Crawshaw <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 10:28  PM, Adam Megacz wrote:
> > BTW, what do you all think of having a box whose font hasn't been set
> > (ie font==null) "inherit" its parent's font?  Then the "default font"
> > is just the font property on the root box.

> This sounds good, but what else should fall into this category?
> Should textcolor be handled the same way?

Ooh, good idea.  Yes, I would favor that.

Can anybody think of a reason not to do this?


> Also, any thoughts on expanding the color references from RGB to RGBA? 
> The core has the power, and it would be a pretty cool way to put it to 
> use.

Yep.  This has to happen in order to complete SVG, so be assured that
it will be there eventually.

Also, this is One More Reason to drop platform fonts in favor of
all-svg-fonts: most windowing systems (Win32 <= win2k, X11) can't
render translucent text.

  - a

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