:host pseudo-class from Anne van Kesteren on 2015-04-25 (www-style@w3.org from April 2015)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 09:32:17 -0700
To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
Cc: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CADnb78hhgX9AvXULmnEs3A-9HCmYGeTXOAoxAey3i55_28KQVA@mail.gmail.com>

I don't understand why :host is a pseudo-class rather than a
pseudo-element. My mental model of a pseudo-class is that it allows
you to match an element based on a boolean internal slot of that
element. :host is not that since e.g. * does not match :host as I
understand it. That seems super weird. Why not just use ::host?

Copying WebApps since this affects everyone caring about Shadow DOM.


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Received on Saturday, 25 April 2015 16:32:40 UTC