- From: Brad Kemper <brkemper@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:24:59 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Mar 20, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > Brad Kemper wrote: >>> P.S. Some of these issues do exist with ::first-line as it stands. >> That's what I was thinking as I read your comments. It seems like >> you must already have strategies for dealing with it. I didn't >> completely follow why its currently a "a little easier to deal >> with" than what I was suggesting. Does this actually make it much >> worse? > > Yes. It violates the CSS processing model in a much more serious > way than the existing first-line setup. And even the existing one > is bad enough that I've been really tempted to just back it out > completely instead of continuing to try to make it work somehow. > >> If getComputedStyle() doesn't work on first-line (because it is >> not part of the document tree), then I would not expect it to work >> on its descendants either. > > That doesn't make much sense, since those descendants _are_ in the > tree. > Yeah, OK.
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