- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 15:54:25 -0800
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, "Edward O'Connor" <eoconnor@apple.com>
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:50 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > On 11/26/2014 10:30 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> >> wrote: >>> Finally, are we sure this is really a good idea? >> >> Yes, it's a useful property. "none" is great for doing manual >> drag-and-drop or the like. "all" is useful for implementing "atomic" >> elements that should only be selected whole. > > These are useful things, sure, but doesn't this belong in the content layer? > It's not about style. It is, afaict, another one of those content-layer > things > that someone made into a CSS property for the convenience of using CSS > selectors. Not really. It's nothing to do with the semantics of the content. It is a control over how the element behaves in a certain context, but in a general, simple way that I think is appropriate to view as under the "style" aegis. ~TJ
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