Brad Kemper wrote: > Yes, and my point is that, due to these beginnings, it is still common > to see window-related on* attributes in the BODY tag, and it is not > unusual for an HTML author to make a less nuanced distinction between > the BODY and the window object. So, rather than create a new simple > selector for WINDOW:focus or VIEWPORT:focus or whatever, it would be > pretty simple, natural, and understandable for authors to use BODY:focus > as a parallel to the still-in-use onfocus attribute there. Especially > considering that BODY:focus isn't otherwise useful for anything now. 1) That doesn't address non-HTML languages. 2) It has undefined behavior when there are multiple bodies (should they all match?) 3) BODY:focus can easily be useful in a language that's not HTML and where the <body> tag indicates a focusable element. -BorisReceived on Monday, 17 November 2008 18:24:15 GMT
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