Re: [css3-selectors] :parent selector

Le Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:45:15 +0300, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> a écrit:

>
> I'd say use a class attribute on your image links and spare yourself the  
> lousy page performance of a parent selector. :)  The class attribute is  
> so useful at obviating the need for all these fancy selectors and will  
> perform better in any modern browser than all these more advanced  
> selector alternatives.  Maybe some people view this kind of class  
> attribute document pollution as a bad thing, but it allows for simpler  
> rule construction and much better performance.
>
> I suppose you might counter that this kind of rule would be useful in a  
> user stylesheet, but user stylesheets are only interesting to the  
> 0.000001% of the browser user population that understand CSS well enough  
> to construct and apply them. :)
>
> dave

I agree with Patrick.

I see a conflict here between "efficient CSS" (using only classes and IDs,  
divs and spans where needed) versus clean markup (no classes/IDs, no  
useless divs/spans).

In this "conflict" for me clean markup is the one that rocks my boat. I  
have switched from tables to CSS for this sole purpose. I was "happy" with  
the layouts and designs I was able to do with tables, but I didn't like  
the markup. Now I want CSS to do all that (and some more) with no tag soup.


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