Re: [selectors-nonelement] First draft of a new spec for selecting non-element nodes from Brad Kemper on 2014-02-16 (www-style@w3.org from February 2014)

From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:00:07 -0800
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-Id: <BBC74B03-CB63-4F4E-BAAA-2DFB7FD971A9@gmail.com>

On Feb 14, 2014, at 4:40 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Although entirely valid in Selectors used in the scope of CSS,
>>  attribute node pseudo-elements never generate boxes.

Doesn't that have more to do with the restrictions of HTML than of CSS? Some other theoretical XML-based document language could use CSS to create boxes out of attributes, couldn't it?

Received on Sunday, 16 February 2014 00:00:37 UTC