- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:24:40 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
- Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0603132318360.315@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Richard Ishida wrote: > > I think this explanation is still a little obscure for the average > person, so I suggest adding an example. > > How about this: > > Original: The difference between :lang(C) and the '|=' operator is that > the '|=' operator only performs a comparison against a given attribute > on the element, while the :lang(C) pseudo-class uses the UA's knowledge > of the document's semantics to perform the comparison. > > Proposal: The difference between ... perform the comparison. For > example, in HTML :lang(ja) would apply styling to an element even if the > language was only declared to be Japanese further up the document tree. > The '|=' operator would require the language attribute on the element > itself. I've added the example from the CSS 2.1 spec (which is even more explicit). Let me know if that's ok or not: The difference between :lang(C) and the '|=' operator is that the '|=' operator only performs a comparison against a given attribute on the element, while the :lang(C) pseudo-class uses the UA's knowledge of the document's semantics to perform the comparison. In this HTML example, only the BODY matches [lang|=fr] (because it has a LANG attribute) but both the BODY and the P match :lang(fr) (because both are in French). <body lang=fr> <p>Je suis franç§ais.</p> </body> Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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