Re: [css3-namespace] Last call comments from XHTML2 WG

On Friday 2008-03-28 17:11 +0100, Steven Pemberton wrote:
> A note pointing out that default namespaces alter the way that type 
> selectors work compared with earlier versions of CSS, and if you want to 
> avoid that you should always use explicit qualified names would do the 
> trick.

But using explicit qualified names is a *really* bad idea, since it
makes the style sheet depend on specific namespace prefixes being
used in the document.  We really shouldn't suggest doing that.

-David

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Received on Friday, 28 March 2008 17:44:52 UTC