[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 9454] CSS2: Language not inherited from parent element

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9454





------- Comment #29 from hyatt at apple.com  2007-11-08 15:42 PDT -------
dhyatt: i think a single :lang rule (with no qualifiers) will really hurt perf
[5:39pm] dhyatt: every element will crawl up the whole tree
[5:39pm] dhyatt: i don't think it's good enough as is
[5:39pm] dhyatt: existing pages that use this commonly have orphaned :lang
rules
[5:39pm] dhyatt: and it's used as a css detection hack i think also
[5:39pm] MacDome: dhyatt: meaning?
[5:39pm] dhyatt: meaning that existing pages will slow down
[5:39pm] MacDome: (by orphan'd rules)
[5:39pm] dhyatt: if we land this
[5:39pm] dhyatt: global :lang rules
[5:40pm] dhyatt: orphaned is the wrong term to use i guess
[5:40pm] MacDome: like *:lang { }
[5:40pm] dhyatt: right
[5:40pm] MacDome: ick
[5:40pm] dhyatt: *:lang will be lethal
[5:40pm] dhyatt: with this patch
[5:40pm] dhyatt: but safari2/3 ignore it
[5:40pm] dhyatt: so it doesn't matter
[5:40pm] dhyatt: and ffx honors it and has an efficient impl
[5:40pm] dhyatt: when it comes to css selectors you just can't check in a slow
impl imo
[5:41pm] dhyatt: they're too easily abused


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