Fixing a CSS bug in Konqueror (44932)

Lars Knoll lars at trolltech.com
Thu Jul 18 08:47:42 BST 2002


> On Wednesday 17 July 2002 23:33, Daniel Naber wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 July 2002 00:18, Jaak Simm wrote:
> > > According to CSS standards it seams that the :hower is reserved only
> > > for anchor (<a>).
> > > At least that's how it is explained at
> > > http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/css/quickref/css pseudoclasses
> > > hover .html
> >
> > You should refer to the standard at w3.org, everything else is not a
> > standard. It (CSS2) explicitly mentions that it doesn't say anything
> > about *which* elements these classes refer to.
>
> Excuse me if I have misunderstood the problem; but if the standard doesnt
> say which elements it should refer to, what is then stopping us from
> choosing the same elements as MSIE?
> If the behaviour is undefined it has nothing to do with standards.

The other way round. If the standard doesn't limit the behaviour to certain 
elements, it means it has to apply to all of them.

Lars





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