At 06:44 PM 9/29/2002, Ian Hickson digitized these thoughts:
There are over 16000 characters in the CSS character set (UNICODE). I
think that selector is a little too big for any sensible
application...
Which was basically my point. The fact that a requirement as simple and
as reasonable as selecting an element only when it contains another
element could only be satisfied by transmitting (20 x "chars in
charset") bytes of CSS (give or take) seems to indicate a pretty
significant shortcoming.
We need a way to select "upstream elements," either through something
as simple as parent/ancestor operators, or something more robust like
targeting random points in the selector chain.
- Porter
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| Porter Glendinning mailto:porter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
| Web/UI Commando http://glendinning.org |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| Porter's Workshop - http://www.serve.com/apg/workshop/ |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
_______________________________________________
css-discuss [css-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxx]
http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/css-discuss
Sponsored by www.westciv.com - CSS resources | software | learning
| 