Re: Pseudo-elements

On 2/20/03 3:50 PM, "Chris Vincent" <dris86@cox.net> wrote:

> Heh, I feel a bit dumb now.

Don't.  That was not the intent.

> I figured :active was just for links.

It _was_ defined that way in CSS1.  And so CSS1 UAs (like IE6/Windows and
IE5/Mac) only support :active on links.

CSS2 broadened :active to apply to all elements.

 http://w3.org/TR/CSS2

There are no CSS2 UAs (if there are, Chris Wilson owes a lot of beer[1]),
but there are many UAs that support portions of CSS2.  At this point no one
really expects a complete CSS2 UA to ever be developed.

A complete CSS2.1 UA is much more likely.

 http://w3.org/TR/CSS21

> Working with browsers that don't support CSS properly has messed up my
> perspective.  LoL.

Hmmm... I wonder what that says about me.  Or any other browser developer.
Since most of what we do with work <del>with</del><ins>on</ins> such
browsers.

> I was thinking though, would it be possible to
> apply the same sort of things to keyboard events?

Perhaps.  Something like :key-active(c) ?

Note that there is the 'key-equivalent' property in CSS3 UI which enables
some styling of keyboard behaviors.

 http://w3.org/TR/css3-ui

> This might be a 
> little extreme, but maybe...?  It would involve figuring out which
> element would get the event,

The element that is :focused perhaps?

> or maybe limit them to a subset of
> elements.  I dunno.  Haven't really thought it out, but I thought I'd
> just bring it up.

Thanks for bringing it up.  I don't have a good idea of how keyboard events
would be translated to selector states yet, but perhaps someone else will.

Tantek

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2001Oct/0092.html

I couldn't help but note what brought on that thread, that Vadim Plessky
claimed that "Konqueror browser ... will be fully compliant with CSS2 in 1
year time frame".  Note: as the URL implies, that was 2001 October.  Hey,
how's it going Mr. Plessky? (cheapshot)


> 
> On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 12:48 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 2/19/03 9:33 PM, "Chris Vincent" <dris86@cox.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I've always thought it might be useful to be able to do
>>> pseudo-elements
>>> for events other than MouseOver.  For example, you could have
>>> MouseDown, MouseUp, etc.
>> 
>> For example, you have :active
>> 
>>> Its functionality would be limited, but could
>>> really ease up the JavaScript use on simple interaction.
>> 
>> Very much agreed.
>> 
>>> You could do
>>> rollovers and such with a simple change to the background image.
>> 
>> And many folks have.  Just search for CSS rollovers:
>> 
>>  http://www.google.com/search?q=CSS+rollovers
>> 
>>> If
>>> :hover can make it into CSS, why not some others?
>> 
>> Agreed, and plenty others have.  See "Selectors", specifically the
>> section
>> on UI selectors:
>> 
>>  http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#UIstates
>> 
>>> 
>>> "Intel Inside" - The World's Most Common Warning Label
>> 
>> Funny, I thought the world's most common warning label was:
>> 
>>  "Copyright.  All rights reserved."
>> 
>> Tantek
>> 
>> 
> 
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