On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Brian Kardell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 21, 2012 4:03 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Ojan Vafai <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Meh. I think this loses most of the "CSS is so much more convenient" >>> benefits. It's mainly the fact that you don't have to worry about >>> whether >>> the nodes exist yet that makes CSS more convenient. >> >> Note that this benefit is preserved. Moving or inserting an element >> in the DOM should apply CAS to it. >> >> The only thing we're really losing in the dynamic-ness is that other >> types of mutations to the DOM don't change what CAS does, and some of >> the dynamic selectors like :hover don't do anything. >> > > So if I had a selector .foo .bar and then some script inserted a .bar inside > a .foo - that would work... but if I added a .bar class to some existing > child of .foo it would not...is that right?
Correct. If we applied CAS on attribute changes, we'd have... problems. ~TJ
