- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
 - Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:15:54 +0200
 - To: Stuart Ballard <sballard@netreach.com>
 - Cc: Jerry Baker <jerrybaker@attbi.com>, www-style@w3.org
 
Stuart Ballard wrote:
> 
> We're asking developers to go from the familiar:
> 
> a:hover { ... }
> 
> To:
> 
> :link:hover, :visited:hover { ... }
> 
 > [...]
Note that while in HTML, a:hover may give the impression of working, it in fact 
fails when the language you are using (e.g. XLink) doesn't use <a> as the 
element for links.
Unless you are proposing that the element type "a" be a magical shortcut for 
":link, :visited"...
Mozilla has the extension pseudo-class :-moz-any-link. Maybe CSS could have such 
a pseudo-class introduced.
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