A Shocking Truth About CSS

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Post by _pius » Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 1:40 PM UTC

A Shocking Truth About CSS
blog.twoalex.com

Re: A Shocking Truth About CSS

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Post by goodside » Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 2:34 PM UTC

Scroll to the botom, and:

11:44:33 AM Alex K: that makes it sound like it may not be worth huge optimization?

11:44:46 AM Alex M: no, not really

Re: A Shocking Truth About CSS

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Post by ableal » Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 2:37 PM UTC

(from the header:)

The Two Alexs

Alexes? Alex's? Alexi? Alexim?

In hackanonical form, Alexen. As in oxen, vaxen, boxen.

Re: A Shocking Truth About CSS

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Post by bwill » Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 2:40 PM UTC

Can anyone point to where this is required by the css specification? Or is this an implementation detail? The reality may be that all the browsers do it this way, but why couldn't someone add some more smarts to choose selectors based on selectivity, just as a SQL query planner would?

Re: A Shocking Truth About CSS

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Post by FluidDjango » Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 2:41 PM UTC

The "Two Alexes" are just discovering (Feb 2010) what Steve Souders explained in detail at http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/06/18/simplifying-css-... [which is probably the site you want to visit on "How CSS strategies affect site performance"] (June 2009).

Re: A Shocking Truth About CSS

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Post by goodside » Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 2:43 PM UTC

ableal wrote: post #3

(from the header:) The Two Alexs Alexes? Alex's? Alexi? Alexim? In hackanonical form, Alexen. As in oxen, vaxen, boxen.

"Alices", by analogy with "codex".

Re: A Shocking Truth About CSS

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Post by robin_reala » Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 2:47 PM UTC

bwill wrote: post #4

Can anyone point to where this is required by the css specification? Or is this an implementation detail? The reality may be that all the browsers do it this way, but why couldn't someone add some more smarts to choose selectors based on selectivity, just as a SQL query planner would?

It’s quicker to walk up a DOM tree than it is to walk down - that’s the root reason why browsers have all implemented it this way.

Re: A Shocking Truth About CSS

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Post by Torn » Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 2:48 PM UTC

goodside wrote: post #6

ableal wrote: post #3

(from the header:) The Two Alexs Alexes? Alex's? Alexi? Alexim? In hackanonical form, Alexen. As in oxen, vaxen, boxen.

"Alices", by analogy with "codex".

Alexes is the best of the bunch.

Re: A Shocking Truth About CSS

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Post by davidw » Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 2:49 PM UTC

goodside wrote: post #6

ableal wrote: post #3

(from the header:) The Two Alexs Alexes? Alex's? Alexi? Alexim? In hackanonical form, Alexen. As in oxen, vaxen, boxen.

"Alices", by analogy with "codex".

It's a Greek name, so I'd go with that for plurals, rather than German or Latin templates.

Re: A Shocking Truth About CSS

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Post by tjic » Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 2:53 PM UTC

FluidDjango wrote: post #5

The "Two Alexes" are just discovering (Feb 2010) what Steve Souders explained in detail at http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/06/18/simplifying-css-... [which is probably the site you want to visit on "How CSS strategies affect site performance"] (June 2009).

Being "scooped" by a mere 6 months, on a 10 year old technology doesn't really make their realization dated.

It's new to me, and I bet it's new to most news.yc-ers.