- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:34:58 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> We must therefore once again[2] urgently request that the > document be titled "CSS Selectors" and not simply "Selectors" or Past confusion in this forum indicates that such a title would mislead too many people into thinking that they could only be used for style sheets. Please provide a suggestion that achieves your goals without referring to CSS, or style sheets. > We object to the characterization expressed in the above > sentence. It could be construed as implying that CSS selectors > are somehow superior to all other forms of selection in terms of > performance. There is nothing in the specification to support A frequent reason for rejecting proposed new selectors is that they would perform poorly when documents are dynamically modified, so performance has been one of the key design criteria. This is an area where there is tention between the desires of content authors for more power and the performance requirement, so there have been compromises. Requests for XSL type extensions are rejected for this reason.
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