I imagine there's a good reason; but I'm curious: why do we want to keep this legacy, prefixed pseudo-class and not just use is()?
-tom On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 3:36 PM Emilio Cobos Álvarez <emi...@crisal.io> wrote: > > Summary: Implement the legacy :-moz-any selector as an alias of :is(). > > This means that it'll be more powerful, and also simpler to maintain for us. > > This has been enabled in 81 beta/nightly and for the whole 82 cycle with > no regriessions so far, see bug 561154. > > This means that it will accept more selectors (like :is() does), which I > don't expect to be problematic. > > It also means that specificity may change in some cases, because the > specificity of :-moz-any doesn't account for the inner selectors. This > was a long-standing issue that this change fixes (bug 561154), but that > can technically change behavior (thus the pref, and having it enabled on > Nightly / Early beta for a while). > > This last bit is pretty hard to use-count, because the specificity > change in most cases won't end up resulting in an actual behavior > change. I expect this to not be problematic either, because of the > limited usage that this prefixed pseudo-class has, and because behavior > is closer to what authors expect. As a data point, this change required > no changes to the browser UI at all, which extensively used the > :-moz-any() pseudo-class. > > Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1666086 > > Standard: N/A, this is a legacy, prefixed pseudo-class, which we'll > build on top of the standard alternative that we've shipped for a while. > > Platform coverage: All > > Preference: layout.css.moz-any-is-is.enabled > > DevTools bug: N/A, devtools will work the same as they work with :is(). > > Other browsers: N/A, this is a -moz- prefixed pseudo-class. > > web-platform-tests: There are tons of tests for :is(), but I don't plan > to test the :-moz- prefixed pseudo-class in WPT. > > Cheers, > > -- Emilio > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
