Mike Dougherty wrote:
> Is there any known performance impact to possibly overly specific selectors?
> 
<snip>
> Does the second case incur less parse/render overhead?
> 
> I normally opt for readability, but I have recently executed a styled list of 
> links from what was 
> once a table-based layout.  The page display performance is pretty terrible.  
> I would post a url, 
> but this is part of a redesign rollout that is not yet public.

Dave Hyatt, who worked on Gecko's CSS implementation (i.e. Firefox) and 
is now lead developer on Apple's Safari, discussed this in possibly more 
detail than you want to know:
<http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2005_05.html#007507>

Short answer: yes :-)

HTH,

Nick.
-- 
Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/


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