The CSS Corner: CSS3 Selectors

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Lars Gunther — Sun, 16 May 2010 10:22:53 GMT

Mozilla have taken careful measures to stop queries into browser history based on the :visited selector. Will IE9 be equally safe in this regard?

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A Nonnymouse — Sun, 16 May 2010 07:14:44 GMT

@Mustansir Doctor

Doesn't IE8 already do that?

Add Current Tabs to Favorites once the tabs you want are open. Then click on the arrow next to the Favorites folder that was created to open all of them later.

Or do you mean something else?

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Sun, 16 May 2010 05:03:08 GMT

I was wondering if IE9 supports returning computed values for CSS in JS.

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Mustansir Doctor — Sun, 16 May 2010 04:42:20 GMT

Scenario: I have 5 email accounts (gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc). When I check email, I usually check them all. I also visit multiple news sites frequently (cnn, bbc, finance.yahoo, news.google). Again, I usually open all of them at the same time.

It would be great if I could fire up IE, open a few tabs, navigate to different sites in them, and then choose "Save Tabbed Session". I could then have multiple saved tab sessions (e.g., named "Email", "News", etc). The next time I start IE, I can then just choose "Load Tabbed Session", and choose one of my saved ones. Automatically, all necessary tabs would open up, with each navigating to one of the sites in the session.

P.S. I couldn't figure out how to give this suggestion via Connect. It seems Connect always assumes I am filing a bug agains the IE 9 Platform Preview.

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Will Peavy — Sun, 16 May 2010 04:09:31 GMT

Feature request- please make it easy for users to disable ::selection.

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beverloo — Sat, 15 May 2010 22:09:12 GMT

The problem with ::selection is that it got released as a Candidate Recommendation in November 2001, however, it got dropped again in March 2010 due a number of issues, mostly in relation to nesting the element and styling. Because of this UA's currently implement the pseudo-selector in a different manner even though none (except for Firefox) require the vendor prefix. Whether they should is debatable as the specification was published as a candidate recommendation and vendors shipped software with the feature before going back to a draft.

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SS — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:28:00 GMT

I would like to see canvas support please

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Badger — Sat, 15 May 2010 18:51:34 GMT

@Evan Byrne I completely agree.

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Evan Byrne — Sat, 15 May 2010 15:03:58 GMT

This is great news! As for the people complaining about ::selection, i really don't see the issue. There are plenty of ways for you to screw up your website already, adding ::selection won't cause your user's social security numbers to get stolen.

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Edwin Martin — Sat, 15 May 2010 09:48:33 GMT

For everybody asking for canvas support: the chance IE9 will support canvas is near 100%.

"Why?", you'll aks.

Easy:

1) Microsoft has drunk the html5 koolaid. It confirmed support for html5.

2) Microsoft supports SVG, which is much harder to implement than canvas.

3) The fear that Microsoft is protecting their own technologies (VML) does not apply: VML is much more like SVG than canvas. So, from this point of view, Microsoft would support canvas easier than SVG.