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> It is not difficult to find discussions that spans more than one decade, where the official consensus is "web authors: get screwed, we would rather die than t
by mmarx 12y ago
> It is not difficult to find discussions that spans more than one decade, where the official consensus is "web authors: get screwed, we would rather die than to add X feature".
And yet, this doesn't appear to be the case here:
> People, people. We already know what the solution is to be -- binding XBL to pseudo-elements. There is no point commenting here. We all know you want it. If you're not volunteering to fix it, please don't comment at all.[0]
Rather, nobody seems to have stepped up to actually implement the feature for the past decade, wich isn't all that surprising since implementing this seems to be quite the effort:
> (1) this is a pretty involved bug; it would take weeks to months of work for a full-time engineer[1]
[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790#c125 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790#c125
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790#c173 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790#c173