(unknown charset) Re: UA's implementation of ::selection

On Saturday 2010-05-15 12:19 -0500, David Hyatt wrote:
> #mydiv {
>   selection: find-in-page(myfindstyle) selection(myselectedtextstyle);
> }
> 
> I kind of like the idea of having only one pseudo element for each
> unique appearance you'd like to apply to any selection in the
> whole document.  Having the pseudo elements be singletons off the
> document root is very efficient, and then inheritance of all the
> selection types is handled using the same model as everything else
> in CSS.

Properties that accept value lists like that are a disaster in terms
of cascading.  We could never implement spellcheck or find-in-page
using a mechanism like that since the page would break it the second
it tried to style any other type of selection.

-David

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