- From: Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde@carewolf.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:38:54 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Friday 08 April 2005 12:28, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >Robin Berjon wrote: > >>>> As said in the archived posts: it is no problem for todays user-agents > >>>> to use XPath > >>> > >>> I think it would be a problem. As it goes against all CSS parsing > >>> rules. > >> > >> Not if you put it in a string. > > > >I'm not sure I understand. Selecting previous-siblings, parent/ancestor > >elements, et cetera. CSS is designed around a model that XPath is not > >compatible with. > > Determining which declarations apply to a specific element is something > that happens long after "parsing rules". It easy to implement in fact, > the problems are rather possible performance and user experience issues > (which selectors like :last-of-type have, too). To not meantion :nth-last-of-type(odd). To change topic: Have you considered what kind of behaviour those selectors should even have in incrementally loaded pages? In konqueror they are not applied until the parent is closed. `Allan
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