- From: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:49:57 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:05:38 +0200, Sylvain Galineau <galineau@adobe.com> wrote: > On 4/22/13 9:22 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:32 AM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> >> wrote: >>> In Gecko we call this :-moz-only-whitespace. So I'd offer >>> :only-whitespace as another suggestion. >> >> Clear, but a bit long. That doesn't kill it, but makes it less >> attractive. > > The much higher clarity of the name offsets the length cost, imo. Short > and > obscure/ambiguous is no win. I don't think the name is that clear - it doesn't really sound like it includes :empty elements. (The MDN description illustrates the mismatch, I think: "The :-moz-only-whitespace pseudo-class matches an element that has no child nodes at all or empty text nodes or text nodes that have only white-space in them") -- Øyvind Stenhaug Opera Software ASA
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