Re: [css3-regions] @region and specificity

Hello,

Is there anybody who would still want something else than the @region syntax? I see that Christophe sent a clarification about what his proposal was, but since this was prefixed by a JFTR, it seems that we have consensus on sticking with the @region syntax.

I am fine with sticking with @region even though I have been back and forth on this topic. The reason I was feeling warmer to the pseudo-element syntax is that it opened the use of getComputedSytle(elem, pseudo-class). But we can think about alternate ways of providing access to the used style for the fragment of an element falling into a particular region.

To address Fantasai's original concern, would it make sense to say that the @region rule modifies the specificity of the selectors it contains or would that be heresy? 

Vincent

On Mar 20, 2012, at 5:29 PM, Brad Kemper wrote:

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> On Mar 20, 2012, at 12:18 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:12 PM, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote:
>>> On Mar 20, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:35 AM, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote:
>>>>> I would strongly prefer we use pseudo-classes here. I don't get why we would want to use pseudo-elements. We're not talking about a unique object as we are with other pseudo-elements. We're just talking about how an element itself looks in a particular region. In the example above the portion of <h1> that is in a region is still the <h1>, so I think a pseudo-class is far more appropriate.
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>>>> "The portion of <h1> that is in a region" is a unique object, though,
>>>> just like "the portion of <p> in the first line" is.  A pseudoclass
>>>> just filters elements, exactly like a normal class would, so any
>>>> properties would still apply to the *whole* <h1>.
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>>> I should back up and say I hate using pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements for this at all and still think the @region syntax is far superior to both.
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>>> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-regions/#the-at-region-style-rule
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>>> I think what's specified there is far easier to read and understand for authors than pseudo-elements would be.
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>> I agree.  Just saying.  ^_^
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> Me three. I like the @region syntax. 

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