[csswg-drafts] Consider reverting “allow child-index pseudos to select unparented elements” change

sideshowbarker has just created a new issue for 
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== Consider reverting “allow child-index pseudos to select unparented 
elements” change ==
Spec section: https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#child-index

Original CSS WG issue: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/issues/317
Discussion: 
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Mar/thread.html#msg290

But see also 
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2016Oct/0009.html

At the time when  this spec change was made more than 3 years ago at a
 time, we had interoperability among all UAs on this: They all 
implelmented the original spec requirements. And in the 3 years since,
 Gecko is the only engine that has changed to match the spec change. 
So interop on this has now regressed, and it’s not clear if there are 
even any Blink/WebKit/Edge browser bugs open to request those other 
browsers implement this change.

So it seems like consideration should be made about either reverting 
the change or else getting some browser bugs raised and making an 
effort to get back to interoperability on this.

Please view or discuss this issue at 
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/695 using your GitHub 
account

Received on Wednesday, 9 November 2016 04:41:43 UTC