Re: [selectors] Matching of :first-child and the like for elements whose parent is not an element from fantasai on 2013-03-19 (www-style@w3.org from March 2013)

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:53:01 -0700
To: www-style@w3.org, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
Message-ID: <5147C4FD.2050303@inkedblade.net>

On 03/18/2013 12:29 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 3/18/13 3:26 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> fantasai says this was indeed purposeful, and letting them match the
>> root doesn't really buy you anything in a normal document
>
> Agreed;

I honestly have no idea why it was defined that way, the spec just seems
rather explicit about defining it that way. I wouldn't be opposed to a
change here, but am curious if there is any reason, other than the
semantics of the world "child", the restriction was put in place.

Maybe Tantek or glazou remember?

~fantasai

Received on Tuesday, 19 March 2013 01:53:30 UTC