On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Ben Darlow wrote:

> The first important distinction is between a selector and a
> pseudo-selector.

There is no such distinction.

> When you write a:<something> you are using what is
> called a pseudo-selector,

No, it is a selector, which contains the pseudo-class selector 
:<something>. This is more or less just a terminology issue, but the CSS 
terminology is confusing enough without added confusion.

> which applies to elements of that type only in
> specific circumstances (for instance, when a link is being hovered).

Yes, the point in pseudo-classes is that they reflect the states of an 
element during browsing, via events external to CSS

-- 
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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