- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 20:57:16 +0100 (BST)
- To: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- cc: www-svg@w3.org
[This is now off-topic, any follow-ups should go to www-style] On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Paul Prescod wrote: > I was originally thinking that it might be useful to be able to make > non-anchor objects clickable. In CSS2, almost all content is already clickable, as the :active pseudo-class applies to everything. The only exception is generated content, because pseudo-elements must appear at the end of the selector chain and thus the :active pseudo-class cannot be applied to :before or :after. It has been suggested on www-style that this rule be changed, thus making even generated content clickable. http://www.bath.ac.uk/%7Epy8ieh/internet/wwwstyle.html#mylessrules What actually _happens_ when you click an element (apart from its changing style), is beyond the scope of CSS. The Cascading Action Sheets proposal discusses this. * * * ># The full presentation of some HTML elements cannot be expressed in ># CSS2, including replaced elements (IMG, OBJECT). > I *do not* think that displaying images for arbitrary element type > names is beyond CSS's complexity curve!! This has also been suggested. In fact, a rather comprehensive proposal was written on www-style. http://www.bath.ac.uk/%7Epy8ieh/internet/wwwstyle.html#replaced * * * > I also think that CSS3 needs to support text generated cross > references. This also has been suggested. http://www.bath.ac.uk/%7Epy8ieh/internet/wwwstyle.html#crossref * * * Hopefully the CSS Working Group will include these features in CSS3. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+2642 U+2651 U+262E U+2603 U+263A
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