Sent by Adam Kuehn on 8 February 2005 16:04
Jens Brueckmann wrote:
>Thus I wrote a small testcase with 21 nested lists (Opera users
>beware! Rendering is extremely slow):
>http://www.j-a-b.net/tmp/specificity.html
I ran this through Mac browsers, as well. Opera gets it wrong, as
expected, but Mozilla 1.7, IE5, and Safari 1.2.4 all get it right.
>I wonder which one is right?
As clearly explained by John Lewis earlier, Opera is wrong.
In my opinion, it is a very minor error. If you have selectors with
10+ elements in them and they are causing conflicts with other
selectors, then you need to rethink your fundamental design
practices. Classes and IDs can significantly reduce the length and
increase the specificity of selectors, and almost never should you be
relying on the cascade to help you at that level of detail. Frankly,
I can't even remember the last time I needed a selector with more
than about a half dozen elements in it, and if I'm that deep in, I've
usually got at least two IDs in there to narrow the scope.
In my opinion, Opera's rendering speed of the test page is a much
bigger problem (but that's OT for this list).
--
-Adam Kuehn
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