- From: Daniel Glazman <Daniel.Glazman@der.edfgdf.fr>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:21:45 +0000
- To: www-style@w3.org
- CC: Ian Hickson <exxieh@bath.ac.uk>
Bert Bos wrote:
> > On a related note, look at the following rule
> > P EM, P:first-line { font-style: italic; }
> > and imagine what would happen to the following text:
> > <P>This is <EM>the</EM> first line of text.</P>
> > The emphasised "the" would not be emphasised! What we need is
> > P:first-line EM { font-style: normal; }
> > but according to the last line of the selectors page (4) it is wrong,
> > because "Pseudo-elements must be specified at the end of a selector". Again,
> > I don't really understand the reasoning in this.
>
> Yes, I agree there are useful cases, but on the whole this leads to
> so many difficulties (in the specification as well as in the
> implementations) that we think this is not in the scope of CSS.
I agree 100% with Bert about difficulties. A bit less about scope ;-)
possible problems :
1. In the quoted example, nothing tells us that the EM is *completely*
included in P:first-line for instance....
2. pseudo-elements list may be extended in the future and promoting
pseudos as normal elements in selectors could be a terrible problem.
</Daniel>
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