- From: James Hopkins <james@idreamincode.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 07:39:34 +0000
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
>> If "bar" is split over two adjacent text nodes (e.g "b ar"), it
>> could be
>> matched by ::text(b ar){}.
>
> I'm not sure I follow. ::text(b ar) would match the string "b
> ar" (with a space in it), no?
Indeed, which is what my 'for example' ("b ar") aimed to demonstrate :)
>> I personally can't envisage a use case where crossing textnodes (or
>> element boundaries, for that matter) in order to match a single word,
>> would be beneficial.
>
> Really? Textnode boundaries can come in arbitrary places in text
> (more on this in my upcoming reply to Brad in this thread).
My aim is to answer these in a separate email.
> Element boundaries happen in the middle of words all the time right
> now; whether that's because sites are trying to apply particular
> styling to parts of words
After some more thought, I retract my earlier opinion; it makes
complete sense to cross element boundaries for the styling reason alone.
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