- From: Jason CranfordTeague <jason@brighteyemedia.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:04:05 -0500
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Cc: Public W3C CSS Style Discussion <www-style@w3.org>
On Nov 16, 2007, at 4:54 PM, David Woolley wrote: > > Jason Cranford Teague wrote: >> *CSS 3 Recommendation* >> *Current Link Pseudo-class Selector* > > Except that the path component count is novel, this gets proposed at > regular intervals. If it get proposed regularly, then that indicates a strong need for something like this. > > >> conveniently style a link based on the clients current URI in order >> to > > Which URI? The basic problem is that a page often has more than one > URI and the one that is in the address bar is not necessarily the > one that is used in links within the page. True, but often it is. Although not a perfect solution, I believe it will satisfy the needs for a lot of designers, especially if the pathing ability is included. I've discussed this proposal with several Web designers and all of them immediately saw value in the idea. > > >> current URI, but also style links based on directory level. > > Only some types of URI are hierarchical. Of those, only some use > "/" as a hierarchy level delimiter. For http: scheme URLs, the path > components don't necessarily represent directories (and, > unfortunately, there are a lot content management systems that > produce completely flat structures). > > > -- > David Woolley > Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. > RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, > that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work. >
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