On May 15, 2010, at 12:41 PM, François REMY wrote: > Well, it's. When you specify a selection color, > you should not rely on the "default" selection > background-color. > > Imagine we're on an OS for which the default > selection highlight is white text on black bg. Somehow I doubt that such a retro, 2-bit UA is going to pay much attention to my ::Selection rule anyway. > Your rule may end up by having no readable > text on the screen when the selection occur. > > By forcing the developer to specify a background > color, we avoid this problem (at least, we suppose > the author will use a readable bg/color combination). > > Please note it's the behavior of both IE and Opera. Well, that sucks. I should be able to change the foreground color without changing the background color (of a pseudo-element's normal coloring). That's why they are two properties, not one. Authors specify one without the other all the time.
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