- From: James Elmore <James.Elmore@cox.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:03:24 -0800
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:51 AM, fantasai wrote: >> fantasai wrote: >>> :matches would take a normal selector rather than a fragment that >>> begins with a combinator (which seems very unbalanced to me, like >>> passing a mathematical function an expression that began with the >>> multiplication symbol). It would just be restricted to only allow >>> the > and + combinators. >> [Sorry about the nesting, my mail editor added it and I can't seem to delete it.] Anyway -- using ":matches" seems unclear. The matching is against selectors, so it should be something like ":match_selector" or ":selector_match". This would allow later addition of ":text_match" for (previously proposed) regex-like matches and possibly even other types of matches, if they are proposed. But simply using ":matches" would cause confusion at the beginning and limitations later for any 'match' extensions in CSS. </James>
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