- From: Ian Hickson <exxieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:45:53 -0000
- To: Sho Kuwamoto <sho@macromedia.com>, www-style@w3.org
Sho wrote: >I'm not a browser author, but I wrote the CSS parser and >renderer for Dreamweaver. If regexp becomes part of the >CSS spec, I don't imagine that we would support it for >some time. Will you support the currently drafted attribute selectors? If not, then regexp won't make any difference to your plans. If you will, then why not take one of the free, highly efficient implementations of regexp already out there, and write it into the attribute selector section? The parsing of the sheet will be the same - the regexp will be passed to the regexp parser - and the selecting on attributes will still be a "does it match what we want?" comparison, merely going through the extra step of passing it to the regexp module. The only extra step is this parser for regexp, which is largely already written by other people. >Adding complexity to CSS means that vendor compliance >will become worse than it already is. I believe that this would >hurt CSS more than it would help. The same argument could be applied to tables, as I keep saying. But then I guess you won't be implementing that anyway!!! -- Ian Hickson -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 Info: www.geekcode.com GIT/M/S d->-- s+: a--- C++(+++)>$ U P L+ !E W+++ N+ o? K? w@ O- !M V- PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t 5+++>++++ X- R(+++) tv b++(+++) DI++ D++ G e(*)>+++++ h!()(--) !r y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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