[whatwg] Repetition Model

[Dean Edwards]

Jim Ley wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:53:54 +0000, Dean Edwards <dean at edwards.name> wrote:
> 
>>Olav Junker Kjær wrote:
>>I've been working on perfecting this technique. There is a way to
>>disable it once each element has been checked.
> 
> 
> There is?  See the clj thread I quoted elsewhere, whilst it's possible
> it's not immediately after the element has been checked.
> 
> 

there are ways. See this page:

http://dean.edwards.name/my/misbehaviors/

I have two solutions both very similar to this.

>>It is still an acceptable compromise to require the author to attach
>>this behavior.
> 
> 
> I don't agree with this at all, we want an abstraction layer, we don't
> want authors having to do anything, we also want this to be
> implementable in a plugin in IE, not just in author provided scripts.
>  

Sure. But they have to do something already. They have to install HTCs 
on their server and link to them somehow using CSS. Ideally that will be 
a single-line inclusion of a style sheet. My point is, in extreme cases 
where performance needs to tweaked, we suggest the following change:

* {
  behavior: expression(...);
}

==>

tr.example {
  behavior: expression(...);
}

it's a performance tweak that *could* be made. It is not a requirement.

-dean