- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 21:10:50 -0500
- To: John Lewis <lewi0371@mrs.umn.edu>, www-style@w3.org
John Lewis wrote: > If it's a horrible burden to implement *:hover and :hover differently It's not really any more horrible than many other quirks, all things considered... It will lead to unexpected behavior for anyone who tries to write CSS based on the specs, however (since the spec explicitly says those two are identical). > A possible variant is letting :hover and *:hover apply > only to certain elements similar to Win IE (so they will be identical > selectors), but still letting h1:hover apply to h1 elements. This is what Mozilla does, in quirks mode. In standards mode, :hover and *:hover apply to everything. Out of curiousity, is the Opera behavior you described the same in quirks and standards mode? -Boris
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