- From: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 21:51:36 +0000
- To: Vincent Hardy <vhardy@adobe.com>, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org CSS" <www-style@w3.org>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf
> Of Vincent Hardy
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 2:09 PM
>
> I like the idea of having a ::lines-in-region pseudo element and I think
> it expresses the selection part really well. For extensibility, I would
> like that we would do something like:
>
> @region-style <region_sel> {
> h1:before {
> content: "(continued)";
> }
> }
>
> in the future. To be able to have richer region styling in the future, I
> think we need to have a scoping syntax. I would prefer an @ rule over
> putting the additional scoping on individual selectors. For my previous
> example, we would otherwise have to write something like:
>
> h1:before-in-region(<region_sel>) {}
>
I also prefer @region (BTW, I think it should just be @region, not @region-style). It sees that yes, a new pseudo-element can achieve the same but it requires some new parsing features, new rules for other pseudo-elements, and it doesn't provide the grouping (the latter admittedly some people like and some don't).
It also seems to fit well in model or other grouping rules:
@media screen and (orientation:portrait) { body { columns:2; } }
@page landscape { width:8in; height:6.5in; margin: 1in 1.5in; }
@region #first { body { color:white; background:url(ocean.png); } }
First-line doesn't have this option because there is no element, but given a choice @region looks cleaner...
Alex
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