- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:18:17 +0200
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Authors and users should probably be able to style certain text highlighting done by user agents (mostly) independent of markup:
::typo | ::spelling | ::hint(orthography) | …
Words that are unknown to the built-in dictionary,
roughly equivalent to words containing spelling errors.
Often rendered as red squiggly underlines.
::grammar | ::hint(grammar), ::hint(style) | …
Hints for improvements or corrections of grammar.
::match | ::search | ::find | ::found | …
Matches for the full page search. Often indicated by background color.
::any-match | ::matches; ::first-match, ::last-match
It may make sense to differentiate current/active match and all matches,
maybe also first and last matches.
We can probably live well without ‘::nth-match’.
Actually there are more kinds of hints with which browsers (may) augment documents, e.g. for translation of foreign terms within text, expansion of abbreviations, glossary information or formatting. Therefore a generic ‘::hint’ or easily extendable ‘::hint()’ may be the best solution.
Note that ‘::match’ differs considerably from previous proposals for matching text from within style sheets, like ‘::matches('foo')’ or ‘::text('foo')’. I believe it has been suggested before to select and style user (text) selections with ‘::selection’ or the like – this proposal belongs into that same category and ‘:target’ is also related.
Received on Thursday, 28 October 2010 06:19:02 UTC