Re: Pseudo-element proposal

On 8/7/12 10:47 AM, "Alan Stearns" <stearns@adobe.com> wrote:

>Dear www-style,
>
>We at Adobe have started working on a new specification extracting the
>notion of Pseudo-Element from the Selectors REC and extending it to
>allow multiple "before" and "after" pseudo-elements created by one
>single element. This is useful for effects like the ones collected in
>
>   http://css-tricks.com/use-cases-for-multiple-pseudo-elements/
>
>but can serve other purposes like creating boxes for CSS Regions.
>It will also simplify the level 4 Selectors spec, separating
>the notion and grammar of pseudo-elements from their syntax and
>rendering definitions.
>
>The proposal is available at
>
>   
>http://adobe.github.com/web-platform/utilities/css-pseudo-elements/docs/cs
>s
>4-pseudoelements.html
>
>We have implemented a JavaScript-based prototype to allow us to
>validate the syntax. The code is available at
>
>   https://github.com/adobe/css-pseudo-elements
>
>and demos based on that prototype are available at
>
>   http://adobe.github.com/web-platform/utilities/css-pseudo-elements/
>
>We expect discussion about this proposal to happen during
>the forthcoming CSS WG face-to-face meeting in San Diego
>and will happily respond to all feedback sent to www-style
>with a leading "[css4-pseudos] " in the subject line.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Razvan Caliman, Adobe Systems, Inc.
>Daniel Glazman, Disruptive Innovations SAS
>Alan Stearns, Adobe Systems, Inc.

Not sure how that space got introduced into the spec link...

  
http://adobe.github.com/web-platform/utilities/css-pseudo-elements/docs/css
4-pseudoelements.html

Thanks,

Alan

Received on Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:54:04 UTC