Re: Selector for parent/predecessor? from Boris Zbarsky on 2006-08-21 (www-style@w3.org from August 2006)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:10:16 -0500
To: Kelly <lightsolphoenix@gmail.com>
CC: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <44E8F9E8.1060607@mit.edu>

Kelly wrote:
> I don't believe for a second that a parent selector would be difficult to 
> implement (the XML model SAYS you'd have to know the parent of an element by 
> the time you're ready to style it);

Implementing a parent selector involves knowing all the children of an element 
by the time you're ready to style it.  Hence the incremental load problems.

-Boris

Received on Monday, 21 August 2006 00:10:30 UTC