- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:07:29 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 19/03/13 02:53, fantasai wrote: > 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? Well. querySelector() just did not exist at all at the time we designed :first-child and the first versions of the Selector API spec were allowing querySelector() only on the document, not on fragments or even any element... I guess at the time it changed to allow it on document fragments, we were almost in PR and not in a position to change the spec. So we need to deal with Boris's request as an errata, and do a s/some other element/some other node/ in the prose he quoted. About not selecting the root of the document, I don't see that as a bug since the name of the pseudo is first-*child* after all. </Daniel>
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