Re: [css3-images] CSS element reference identifier

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

> Elika and I were recently discussing this, and realized that having
> the element reference identifier use the current grammar (as a bare
> IDENT) is future-hostile, as we plan to eventually extend it to accept
> arbitrary selectors, and IDENTs collide with tagname selectors.
>

We've discussed this at least a couple of times before ... I think that if
you want to have something that can use arbitrary selectors, you should
define a new function elements() that takes a selector and can handle
multiple matched elements, and does not consult the CSSElementMap at all.

Rob
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