- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:23:31 -0500
- To: Brad Kemper <brkemper.comcast@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Brad Kemper wrote:
> Yes, and my point is that, due to these beginnings, it is still common
> to see window-related on* attributes in the BODY tag, and it is not
> unusual for an HTML author to make a less nuanced distinction between
> the BODY and the window object. So, rather than create a new simple
> selector for WINDOW:focus or VIEWPORT:focus or whatever, it would be
> pretty simple, natural, and understandable for authors to use BODY:focus
> as a parallel to the still-in-use onfocus attribute there. Especially
> considering that BODY:focus isn't otherwise useful for anything now.
1) That doesn't address non-HTML languages.
2) It has undefined behavior when there are multiple bodies (should
they all match?)
3) BODY:focus can easily be useful in a language that's not HTML
and where the <body> tag indicates a focusable element.
-Boris
Received on Monday, 17 November 2008 18:24:15 UTC