Re: Text selector [was Re: breaking overflow]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:

> I think all these examples deserve semantic markup.
>

... which actually shows, I think, a problem with ::text: it would encourage
authors to take "shortcuts" to get styles applied to particular chunks of
content, shortcuts which are not only fragile and less performant, but also
mean less semantics are available in the document.

Rob
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