- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:11:00 -0700
- To: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>
- Cc: Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@google.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:02 PM, François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr> wrote: > [disclaimer: I'm not a member of the CSS working group, just a mailing list > participant] > > Not sure about about ':host' vs '@host' but I think /select/ is not a great > use of reference combinators. Reference combinators are specified to be > linked to an attribute which refer to an element by its name or ID. Wouldn't > an alternative like That's not necessarily true. All current HTML elements that the reference combinator applies to use an IDREF, but a selector can be viewed as an extrapolation of this. Disregarding this difference, the use of /select/ is identical in semantics to using /for/ on <label>. The use of the reference combinator for both idrefs and selectors is potentially problematic in general, since the two can't be distinguished except by knowing the language in question, and an idref looks like a type selector (and vice versa) so interpreting it in the wrong way gives bad results. However, that's probably not a huge deal - we can make this language-dependent, and simply specify one or the other behavior as the default. ~TJ
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