- From: Patrick Lauke <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:32:39 +0100
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
> David Hyatt > I'd say use a class attribute on your image links and spare yourself > the lousy page performance of a parent selector. :) ... > it allows for simpler rule construction and much better performance. This argument can pretty much be made for *all* complex selectors. nth child, only-of-type, etc. Does that mean they should all be abandoned in favour of simply putting the burden on document authors to properly class the stuff they want styled a particular way? > I suppose you might counter that this kind of rule would be > useful in > a user stylesheet, but user stylesheets are only interesting to the > 0.000001% of the browser user population that understand CSS well > enough to construct and apply them. :) Don't confuse the usefulness of user stylesheets with the lousy, propeller-head implementation of them. If browsers would offer a system whereby user styles could be downloaded (from a repository site, similar to what happens with Firefox themes/extensions), added, activated, switched to, etc without requiring user to actually know CSS itself, I'd posit that uptake would be a lot higher. Don't provide inadequate solutions and then moan that users aren't taking advantage of them... P ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Web Editor External Relations Division University of Salford Room 113, Faraday House Salford, Greater Manchester M5 4WT UK T +44 (0) 161 295 4779 webmaster@salford.ac.uk www.salford.ac.uk A GREATER MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY
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