- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:29:27 +0200
- To: www-style <www-style@w3.org>, "Paul Duffin" <pduffin@volantis.com>
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:58:40 +0200, Paul Duffin <pduffin@volantis.com> wrote: > CSS 3 selectors adds namespace support but at the moment that is only > for elements but extending it to cover other 'identifiers', would have a > number of benefits: > * It could replace the convention that browser vendors have to use a > vendor specific prefix starting with a '-'. This seems like a drawback. The convention we have in place works perfectly fine. > * It would allow custom pseudo elements to be declared and used within > XBL 2.0. At the moment it predefines a number of 'generic' pseudo > elements http://www.w3.org/TR/xbl/#matching1 which is fine but it would > be better if binding authors could define their own custom elements with > names that are more specific to their binding. This could be addressed by having something like an ::xbl(identifier) pseudo-class. No need to make things more complex than that. (But lets first wait for XBL to be implemented so we can play around with it and figure out the real needs.) -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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