- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 01:04:18 +0200
- To: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- CC: www-svg@w3.org
Paul Prescod wrote:
>
> Chris Lilley wrote:
> >
> > Aha, but that is not what you originally said.
>
> That's fair. I was originally thinking that it might be useful to be able
> to make non-anchor objects clickable.
You mean, for the style sheet to make new things into link anchors?
> It is not unusual to need generated
> text to be clickable, for example.
Ok but if it is generated as a before or after on an element tht is a
link, it will be stylistically part of that link (and thus, clickable,
blue, underlined, whatever)
> Sometimes links can also be inferred
> from the content.
Um. Don't follow you there.
> This is especially relevant considering that there is no
> RECommended way to declare anchors today.
True, although hopefully XLink will be that methiod soon.
> Nevertheless, I accept that this
> may all be beyond CSS's complexity curve.
No, now you are back to claiming that CSS can't do this; as I said, it
can.
>
> > foo:link { text-decoration: underline; color: blue}
> > bar:link:before {content: url(icon.png) }
>
> "The full presentation of some HTML elements cannot be expressed in CSS2,
> including replaced elements (IMG, OBJECT)."
Rightm, and true, but that does not apply to non-replaced elements (such
as links).
> I *do not* think that displaying images for arbitrary element type names
> is beyond CSS's complexity curve!!
Nor do I, and I want the see replaced elements better described in a
future version of CSS.
> I also think that CSS3 needs to support text generated cross references.
Perhaps; opinions vary. It is clearly useful, and also clearly can be a
performance and progressive rendering load for long documents.
> As an aside, I'm not clear on why this is named :link when it is meant to
> apply to anchors and not links.
I think you mean, why is this called link when it only applies to link
anchors and not link heads. Thats a fair comment; it only applies to one
part of a link. The name was pehaps ill chosen. However, regardless of
the human-suggestive name, the facility is clearly there and does not
rely on the link element being called A, for instance.
> The prose also talks about "unvisited
> links" but I think it means unvisited anchors. Those are just quibbles for
> a future version, however.
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