Re: [selectors4] no way to select visible children from Brad Kemper on 2015-07-21 (www-style@w3.org from July 2015)

From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 22:08:55 -0700
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Poulain <benjamin@webkit.org>, Aaron Reisman <aaron@hired.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, Marat Tanalin <mtanalin@yandex.ru>, Ms2ger <ms2ger@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <3DC5820E-6663-49FC-87DB-2A62079F28A3@gmail.com>

> On Jul 20, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Also, :hover's loop gets all the way out to user gesture handling. It's not a tight loop inside of style resolution, or in style+selectors.
> 
> But yeah, citing a clearly terrible result doesn't help much in arguing the point. 😀
> 
Yeah, I know. Just throwing it out there. I was not arguing for or against ‘:visible’ (or I guess :visible:first-child for Aaron’s original point). It is pretty useful in jQuery sometimes, but I understand the argument against it.

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