Comments on: Proposal for a CSS ancestor grouping syntax http://www.feike.biz/weblog/2008/07/23/proposal-for-a-css-ancestor-grouping-syntax/ Observing trends in computer technology and internet business Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:51:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Paris Holley http://www.feike.biz/weblog/2008/07/23/proposal-for-a-css-ancestor-grouping-syntax/#comment-769 Paris Holley Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:34:36 +0000 http://www.feike.biz/weblog/2008/07/23/proposal-for-a-css-ancestor-grouping-syntax/#comment-769 That is an interesting concept and I am up for anything that would help consolidate CSS files. Only issue I can see coming up is if that change to syntax would cause CSS rendering to become slower due to the additional parsing of rules by the browser. As rarely as CSS files are accessed, I don't think that the CSS saved using that method would be beneficial to the user. There is also the issue with backwards compatibility, because this will surely not work on browsers that do not adapt this spec. Things to think about it... That is an interesting concept and I am up for anything that would help consolidate CSS files. Only issue I can see coming up is if that change to syntax would cause CSS rendering to become slower due to the additional parsing of rules by the browser. As rarely as CSS files are accessed, I don’t think that the CSS saved using that method would be beneficial to the user. There is also the issue with backwards compatibility, because this will surely not work on browsers that do not adapt this spec. Things to think about it…

]]> By: Greg http://www.feike.biz/weblog/2008/07/23/proposal-for-a-css-ancestor-grouping-syntax/#comment-771 Greg Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:51:37 +0000 http://www.feike.biz/weblog/2008/07/23/proposal-for-a-css-ancestor-grouping-syntax/#comment-771 What I'd really like to see is being able to modify an element's style if it contains another element, such as: tr < td < input[type=checkbox][checked] { background-color: grey; } The style would apply to the tr element that had a child td that had a child checkbox that was checked. So you could highlight rows if a checkbox is checked in that row. There would be other useful scenarios, but that's the most obvious. It's annoying to have to use javascript to accomplish that. Then again, it might be insanely difficult and/or processor-intensive to allow for that in browsers, I don't know. (resubmitted because the server thought my markup was html and removed it) What I’d really like to see is being able to modify an element’s style if it contains another element, such as:

tr < td < input[type=checkbox][checked] {
background-color: grey;
}

The style would apply to the tr element that had a child td that had a child checkbox that was checked. So you could highlight rows if a checkbox is checked in that row. There would be other useful scenarios, but that’s the most obvious. It’s annoying to have to use javascript to accomplish that. Then again, it might be insanely difficult and/or processor-intensive to allow for that in browsers, I don’t know.

(resubmitted because the server thought my markup was html and removed it)

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