- From: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:33:30 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 12/8/05, Kelly Miller <lightsolphoenix@gmail.com> wrote: > > But then you hit the pentultimate question... > > Can XPath be used in CSS selectors without breaking incremental rendering? > > Orion Adrian wrote: > > > XPath allows for functions which is what would map to the various > > > >pseudoclasses, though you would have problems with some of them. > >Again, though, he didn't ask for the removal of normal CSS selectors > >so you could have both in the same document, using CSS-native > >selectors where deemed appropriate. Given CSS's box- and absolute-layout mechanism, no. Other algorithms would allow for incremental rendering or at least low-fault incremental rendering while allowing XPath style selectors. But to a lot of people here, changing box-layout any would be another language and therefore is out of scope for this list. -- Orion Adrian
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