- From: John Lewis <lewi0371@mrs.umn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:24:44 -0600
- To: www-style@w3.org
Shelby wrote on Thursday, January 2, 2003 at 5:29:03 PM: >>> Shelby Moore wrote: >>> CSS selectors allows one to select elements of markup based on >>> attributes which are not related to *semantics*. >> >> Ian Hickson responded: >> As an editor of the W3C Selectors Specification, I assure you, >> that is most definitely not the intention of CSS selectors. > Ian's "assurance" was false. If you revised your original statement to "CSS selectors match elements without regard to the elements' semantics," I think it makes perfect sense. CSS doesn't need to know the markup languages it's applied to, or any markup language at all; that's the beauty of it. Knowledge of the markup language's elements is contained in the CSS author, where it belongs. Of course, I could be horribly wrong. As always, I reserve the right to change my mind *and* pretend like I never held my former opinion at all. -- John
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