- From: Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.net>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:17:26 -0400
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> I agree here, though, that *without* a :scope or :context pseudoclass,
> it can be difficult to achieve proper modularity. Frex, in this
> fragment:
>
> <section>
> <style scoped>
> div span { color: red }
> </style>
> <span>span content</span>
> <div>
> <span>some more span content</span>
> </div>
> </section>
>
> The second span will definitely be red, but the first will be red
> depending on whether or not there is a div somewhere further up the
> ancestor chain.
>
This sounds as if it's a bug. As developer, I would intuitively expect
such a document fragment to have the same results regardless of extra
content. Whether or not the section is wrapped in a div or not should
not (IMHO) affect the styles generated by the scoped stylesheets. I fail
to see a compelling use case that calls for the scoped stylesheets to be
knowledgeable of the existence of any elements outside the scoped root
(e.g., the section).
--
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
Received on Monday, 14 July 2008 21:18:12 UTC