- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 16:06:37 -0800
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Thursday 2011-12-08 12:15 -0800, fantasai wrote: > I don't think creating elements or pseudo-elements is a good way of > controlling spacing. That's what margins are for. We've come a long > way since using spacer GIFs, please let's not go back to that. I agree that pseudo-elements are too heavyweight here: they're more complex for authors to write, and they're also large in terms of memory and performance footprint (more items in the rendering tree), which does matter to authors and users. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂
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