On Fri, Nov 26 2010, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

>>> So you'd inherit down into the DOM and pop when you exit.  However,
>>> would that be correct?  Er, no, not really.  So you'd basically have the
>>> inline thing, plus the stylesheet, but not endlessly combining inline
>>> things.
>>
>> I am missing the why. :)
>
> Well, in this case, the colour renderer is interested in seeing what
> background is, so it's (sort of) inherited downwards, while a border
> setting is not.
>
> Perhaps we should just special-case the colour settings.

I don't like special-case.

I don't see why inheriting would not work with what you did propose. if
its shr-descend call adds style information to the dynamic variable
shr-stylesheet (and merge them of course), we're just having correct
inheritance.

With:
<p style="background: blue; color: red;">foo<p style="color: green;">bar</p></p>

You start with the first style, render foo with background and
foreground. Then you got for bar via shr-descend, which changes color to
green, but merge with the previous dynamically bound shr-stylesheet, so
it still has background set to 'blue'. You render bar, exit 2
shr-descend calls, and continue to render what else is in the document.

If only I had more time I would try to implement something. :)

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Julien Danjou
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