On Wednesday 2009-06-24 17:21 +0100, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
> On 24/6/09 16:19, Cristian Palmas wrote:
> > So, I was wondering if there is someone working on CSS implementation in
> > order to avoid the usage of extra markup. For example, a CSS way of creating
> > on the fly markup elements ONLY for presentational purposes.
> > Have any of you ever heard about something like that?
> 
> In combination with CSS 2's :before and :after, the proposed CSS3 
> selector ::outside would provide you most of the hooks you need without 
> polluting the DOM:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-content/
> 
> I'm unaware of implementations of ::outside.

A more powerful solution for generating content for presentational
purposes (among other things) is http://www.w3.org/TR/xbl/ .  It's
also probably more likely to be implemented than my ::outside /
::inside proposal.

-David

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