As I suspected the performance of the proposed CSS qualified selectors would put a massive load on your browser. Dave Hyatt (he’s involved in Webkit) gives a great insight into this. Be sure to read this Mozilla Guideline on how to write efficient CSS too. Stuff to think about!
CSS (in)Efficiency
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Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …) View more posts