- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:27:53 -0400
- To: David Chambers <david.chambers.05@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
On 3/29/10 9:23 PM, David Chambers wrote:
> My next question is whether browsers could apply discretion as to which
> of a document's elements need to have their text content evaluated?
Yes, but even that can be expensive.
> In this case, am I right in thinking that a document whose CSS contained no
> text content selectors would be rendered as normal
Yes.
> and that a document
> whose CSS contained text content selectors on td elements only would
> render /other/ elements as per usual?
No, since a selector like "td:contains('something') > span" would affect
other elements.
> Obviously if such a selector were to be introduced, its use in
> conjunction with the wildcard would need to be discouraged.
I'm not sure that wildcards really make it that much worse, actually...
-Boris
Received on Tuesday, 30 March 2010 02:28:27 UTC