Re: [css2.1] :first-line behvior

On Mar 20, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:

>
> Brad Kemper wrote:
>>> P.S.  Some of these issues do exist with ::first-line as it stands.
>> That's what I was thinking as I read your comments. It seems like  
>> you must already have strategies for dealing with it. I didn't  
>> completely follow why its currently a "a little easier to deal  
>> with" than what I was suggesting. Does this actually make it much  
>> worse?
>
> Yes.  It violates the CSS processing model in a much more serious  
> way than the existing first-line setup.  And even the existing one  
> is bad enough that I've been really tempted to just back it out  
> completely instead of continuing to try to make it work somehow.
>
>> If getComputedStyle() doesn't work on first-line (because it is  
>> not part of the document tree), then I would not expect it to work  
>> on its descendants either.
>
> That doesn't make much sense, since those descendants _are_ in the  
> tree.
>

Yeah, OK.