- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 07:44:32 -0800
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Issue 4 - 'element reference identifier' underdefined >> ======= >> We need confirmation that switching back to using only id selectors, >> and letting host languages define ways to make more elements match >> that selector (in HTML, the CSSElementMap), is okay. > > I'm not sure that this is OK. Is the intent that modifying the CSSElementMap > will also affect the behavior of #id selectors? That's not how Gecko behaves > and I haven't considered whether that is desirable. There's an open bug in the HTMLWG about this, to determine whether it should have a wide effect across CSS/DOM or just a local effect on element() (and perhaps future things with similar needs). For the purpose of this issue, you can assume that it's defined narrowly to only affect element(). ~TJ
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