Of course it would be a hack, I never said it was "valid" otherwise we wouldn't have this discussion it would be in already lol... It doesn't mean the idea of the feature it would bring can't be discussed or would be useless. You could even use the :hover state instead of the onevent approach.
I don't think it would be useful in the core mostly because it would be barely use and well it would validate the with CSS API probably, but it would allow us to do some non-conventional interesting things, that's all I meant :) On Mar 27, 10:08 am, Daniel Friesen <nadir.seen.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > No framework supports it because it's not possible without it being a > hack. You can't select a :hover state because it's not a node. And .css > is not meant to be used in that way either. .css works on a style tag, > or queries for computed styles. It has absolutely nothing to do with > modifying css rules which is what is required for :hover > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) > > Alexandre Plennevaux wrote: > > ok submittedhttp://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4434 it's in the hands of > > the jquery team to decide now. > > > thanks to you all for an interesting investigation ! > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Gilles <gil...@netxtra.net> wrote: > > >> Catching up the CSS on :hover would sure be interesting to see and > >> quite unique as I believe most javascript framework out there do not > >> support it.You could do some interesting thing with it I guess, use > >> the CSS property of hover to set the skin of some javascript button/ > >> widget, so you end up just editing CSS to have a nice jquery effect > >> and basic styling if javascript off. > > >> I'll be suprise if the team didn't think about it yet tho, as it is > >> often highlited as what javascript selector engine can't get. > > >> On Mar 27, 7:49 am, Alexandre Plennevaux <aplennev...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > > >>> do you guys think i should suggest that it be included in the jquery > >>> core, allowing to do > > >>> var myColor = $('a:hover').css('background-color'); > > >>> ? > >>> i have no idea about the cost/benefit ratio, i just think that it > >>> "feels" right to store styling in the stylesheet rather than in > >>> metadata quirks. > > >>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Danny <d.wac...@prodigy.net> wrote: > > >>>> I honestly have never profiled it, so I don't know. It does not > >>>> involve any AJAX or other additional http access. It does n regular > >>>> expression comparisions, where n is the number of CSS rules in all > >>>> your stylesheets. > > >>>> On Mar 26, 7:05 pm, Alexandre Plennevaux <aplennev...@gmail.com> > >>>> wrote: > > >>>>> ok, so if i understand this correctly, this method does not bring in a > >>>>> heavy overhead? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
