Re: [css3] “Selectors that People Actually Use”

On 19/02/2008, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote:
>
> Jens Meiert wrote:
>
> > * E:lang(fr) – Probably the most questionable selector since apparently replaceable by attribute selectors.
>
> Certainly not.
>
> :lang() deals with not only with the attributes carried by the element
> also with the language of prose in the element. That is determined not
> only by the element itself, but also its ancestors, the META tags on the
> document if it's HTML and even the HTTP headers.

In that case I should change my sites to use :lang(). Last time I
checked (which was a very long time ago)  it did not work at all;
hopefully things are better now.

Checking language using attribute tags is a nightmare. Something
that would check ancesters etc. would be awesome.
-- 
cheers,
-ambrose

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