[webkit-dev] Themes extending the style

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Nov 5, 2008, at 9:36 AM, George Staikos wrote:

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> On 6-Nov-08, at 12:20 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
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>>
>> Hyatt and I as well as some Chrome developers were involved in a  
>> discussion recently about how themes/ports should customize the  
>> user agent stylesheet.
>>
>> I think the following is the case currently:
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>> - Most ports do not change the UA stylesheet at all.
>> - Chromium (not in the main tree yet) has a changed UA stylesheet  
>> with some rules appended at the end.
>> - The Qt port replaces the UA stylesheet wholesale.
>
>   We're doing the same in a few places.
>
>> Those of us involved in the discussion concluded that the best way  
>> to do this was to let RenderTheme subclasses add rules to the UA  
>> stylesheet, so that the core style rules can be in one place, but  
>> themes can adjust theme-specific style details that happen to be  
>> done with CSS rules.
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>   This would be great.  We can use this for WML too.

For WML, I think it would be more appropriate to have a demand-loaded  
wml.css, along the lines of svg.css. I assume any WML style rules  
would be based on the elements rather than the theme.

Regards,
Maciej