- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:32:15 +0200
- To: Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>, David Håsäther <hasather@gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> No. I am also saying that if there is no explicit scope reference node
> passed in then the implied scope reference node is document (or some
> equivalent for elements not in document). I believe that currently the
> implied scope reference node is the element itself.
>
> Currently:
> E.matches(':scope') -> true
> E.matches(':scope ul li') -> false
>
> Should be:
> E.matches(':scope') -> false
> E.matches(':scope ul li') -> true if E.matches('ul li') is true
Why would that be better? As far as the :scope pseudo-element is
concerned, the current semantics seem much more intuitive. I could see
how you maybe want to rebind :scope, or restrict the tree traversed,
but not why you want to change the way :scope works.
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