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Re: ITS 2.0, Selectors 4 and Selectors API 2

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 08:16:06 -0700
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDCXiTaw=46hoaaBv4m0mg-M+PbV3SPR9Z6WxF_76Ap_KA@mail.gmail.com>
To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>, public-multilingualweb-lt-comments@w3.org, Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org> 
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Daniel Glazman
<daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote:
> On 02/07/13 09:16, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> Pseudo-elements do exist in the document tree as far as layout is
>> concerned.
>
> No, they do not. They don't create new nodes (yet), even shadow nodes,
> they can't be serialized. They belong to the layout tree, NOT the
> document tree.

As I said in the section you quoted, *as far as layout is concerned*,
pseudo-elements exist.  I didn't say anything about creating DOM,
affecting stringification, etc.

~TJ
Received on Tuesday, 2 July 2013 15:16:54 UTC

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