- From: Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:43:07 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On 28 Jun 2011, at 19:25, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Daniel Weck > <daniel.weck@gmail.com> wrote: >> The solution based on a CSS pseudo-class was rejected on the basis >> that it >> was impractical for reading system implementors. > > I don't understand what this reasoning means. Could you elaborate? -- Note that this statement does not reflect my personal opinion, I am merely trying to relay ; as accurately as I possibly can ; the reasons behind the consensus reached by the EPUB committee. -- Basically, some (but not all) EPUB reading system implementors within the EPUB working group raised objections against the CSS pseudo-class solution, on the basis that they wouldn't be able to easily implement support for it, as it would require modifying the browser engine (other regexp-based, content pre-processing "hacks" were deemed unsuitable too, by the way). The EPUB3 specification process is public, so here are useful references related to this particular issue: http://groups.google.com/group/epub-working-group/browse_thread/thread/f25b73459500a63d http://groups.google.com/group/epub-working-group/browse_thread/thread/1eba33a3b544b6e2 http://groups.google.com/group/epub-working-group/browse_thread/thread/826af2152a60aa46 Regards, Daniel
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