Re: Collapsing elements

Daniel Glazman wrote:
> 
> Bert Bos wrote:
> 
>> But if there is such a need to query the state of an element, what 
>> stops us from inventing a function and putting it in the CSSOM? Here 
>> is the first draft:
>>
>>     isInitial: element → boolean ∪ ⊥
>>
>> It gives one of three answers: true, false or nil. In an OOP language, 
>> the first argument would probably be written on the left side of the 
>> function name: "element.isInitial()".
> 
> Yep, that's all I wanted to be specified. Let's make it happen,
> seems we have a consensus on need for this feature. And if I
> recall correctly, the WG already discussed things a few times
> w/o finding a solution. Let's make it happen.

Sounds good. How about summarizing the discussion so far onto the wiki? :)
   http://csswg.inkedblade.net/ideas/collapsing

~fantasai

Received on Friday, 22 February 2008 00:42:03 UTC