- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:40:01 -0600
- To: Dmitry Turin <sql4-en@narod.ru>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Dmitry Turin wrote:
> Now we have two manner to specify value of attribute @id:
> #val
> and
> [id="val"]
The former doesn't specify @id, it specifies any attribute of type ID. So it's
very much not the same thing as the [id="val"] selector. It's easy to write
testcases where one selector matches and the other does not.
> Advantage, which we will get, is possibility to use tag
> with spec-symbol # in its name
You can already select such tags:
foo\#bar { styles here }
> I also propose to allow any spec-symbol &, ^, @, ~, %, $
> in name of a tag for future extentions.
Same thing. You can already put these in tagnames if you escape them. This is
true for all Unicode characters.
-Boris
Received on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 16:42:01 UTC