- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:33:34 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
This is the CSS WG's response to an issue you raised on the last CSS
2.1 draft (http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-CSS21-20030915). We want to
publish CSS 2.1 as a CR in about two weeks. Please let us know this
week if you think our response is wrong.
Your e-mail:
http://www.w3.org/mid/170A2352-0259-11D8-9167-003065B8CF0E@iki.fi
5.9 ID selectors
Unlike class selectors, the id selectors are defined to depend on
the IDness defined in the DTD. For performance reasons, Web
browser can reasonably be expected not to process the external DTD
subset. Therefore, id selectors when used with XHTML would fail in
most if not all Web browsers. I suggest allowing the UA to have
hard-coded knowledge about IDness based on the namespace--just
like the UA is expected to have hard-coded knowledge about what
constitutes class.
CSS WG response:
Yes, note added.
For the CSS WG,
Bert
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