Re: Parent Combinator / Parent pseudo-class

Brad Kemper wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>> Brad Kemper wrote:
>>> Can you post a test case, using JavaScript to simulate this, to show 
>>> how slow?
>>
>> Probably, but honestly this is a very low priority for me.  So I 
>> doubt I'll get to it any time soon (months).
>
> Completely understand you have time constraints and other priorities. 
> Your argument against this popular feature request will just go 
> unsubstantiated until someone puts together some sort of example 
> showing it.
>
>
It is not about personal preferences or priorities but rather about 
fundamental limitations related to computational complexity of selectors.

I have tried to explain these limitations in the article "CSS, selectors 
and computational complexity"
that is available at http://www.terrainformatica.com/?p=99

--
Andrew Fedoniouk.

http://terrainformatica.com