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Re: [css3-page][css-gcpm] Styling elements differently based on whether they appear on a left or right page

From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:58:57 +0200
Message-ID: <21041.26161.821277.51100@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Cc: Lea Verou <lea@verou.me>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Also sprach Tab Atkins Jr.:

 > >> article::page(left) p

 > > This is not possible AT ALL if ::page() is a pseudoelement, as
 > > elements cannot be nested in pseudoelements: “the pseudo-element
 > > must appear after the compound selector that represents the
 > > subjects of the selector” [1]
 > 
 > We're removing that restriction.  It made some sense for the 2.1
 > pseudo-elements, but makes less and less as we move into the future.

Indeed. But we need to figure out how to resolve inheritance -- will
it still be based on a 'fictional' tag sequence?

  http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#first-line-pseudo

-h&kon
              Håkon Wium Lie                          CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com                  http://people.opera.com/howcome
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