- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 02:03:46 +0200
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: John Resig <jresig@mozilla.com>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, public-webapi@w3.org
* Jonas Sicking wrote:
>It's not so much fact that it's a pseudo-class, but rather that it's a
>"simple selector" (sorry dbaron, don't know the correct term) which
>$self would be too. Unless we're redefining the CSS parsing rules which
>would mean that we have a lot of work remaining.
The problem with using a pseudo-class, and I understood you to say as
much, is that right now e.querySelector(":a > b") would match any 'b'
element that has a parent element that both matches the 'a' condition
and is a descendant of 'e'. Except with :scope, where "descendant" be-
comes "descendant-or-self". So it would be magic among the pseudo-
classes. If some other syntax is used, there would not be a magic
pseudo-class, which raises less of the questions you were asking. I'm
not sure why this would not address the problem, clearly you would've
to specify how to parse and interpret the new syntax, right now $self
(or whatever syntax you'd use) is not valid in selectors.
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