- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:48:21 -0800
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 10, 2014, at 10:52 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: >>> As soon as you will allow shadow dom styling expect >>> bunch of rules like these: >>> >>> body[theme=blue] input[type=date] -> table th.weekday { color:blue } >>> body[theme=blue] input[type=date] -> table td.today { background:blue } >>> body[theme=blue] input[type=date]:focus -> table td.today { background:red } >>> ... >> >> I have no idea what these mean. Are you using some weird custom >> syntax? Is "->" supposed to mean "/shadow-all" or something? > > It seems you DO have an idea of what those mean, since that is what I took it to mean too (or possibly just /shadow, if it matters to this). I believe "->" was even proposed earlier in the general discussion as an alternative syntax. > > So, if we make this assumption, do you have any response to Andrew's point? No, because I'm not sure what his point is. (An arrow *was* discussed as an *indicator* of named combinators, but not as a combinator itself. I've been burned in the past by people inventing their own private syntaxes and trying to use them in discussion, and I assume they work in a way different from what they think they do.) ~TJ
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