- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 10:24:24 -0700
- To: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Cc: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, www-style@w3.org
On Saturday 2010-05-15 12:19 -0500, David Hyatt wrote:
> #mydiv {
> selection: find-in-page(myfindstyle) selection(myselectedtextstyle);
> }
>
> I kind of like the idea of having only one pseudo element for each
> unique appearance you'd like to apply to any selection in the
> whole document. Having the pseudo elements be singletons off the
> document root is very efficient, and then inheritance of all the
> selection types is handled using the same model as everything else
> in CSS.
Properties that accept value lists like that are a disaster in terms
of cascading. We could never implement spellcheck or find-in-page
using a mechanism like that since the page would break it the second
it tried to style any other type of selection.
-David
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