Re: [CSS OM] list of issues

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com> wrote:
> [Tab Atkins:]
>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-
>> innovations.com> wrote:
>> > Le 06/07/11 10:09, Anne van Kesteren a écrit :
>> >
>> >> Well per the current specification it would only be ":after",
>> >> "::after", ":before" and "::before". If we allow new post CSS 2.1
>> >> pseudo-elements it would only be "::foo" where foo is the name of the
>> new pseudo-element.
>> >
>> > First line and first letter ? Marker ?
>>
>> Exactly the same answer.  :first-line and :first-letter are explicitly
>> allowed by Selectors for legacy reasons, so they're accepted alongside the
>> double-colon form.  ::marker has no such concern, so only the double-colon
>> form is accepted.
>>
> If that the expectation then it should be explicitly stated. Fwiw, WebKit does
> not meet your expectation today (it allows the name with no prefix column).

I agree it should be stated explicitly, if it's not already.  Our
behavior is  stupid.

~TJ