367402 - Implement styleexplicitchildren attribute on <binding>

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 55929

(Core :: XBL, defect)

Description

[Declan Naughton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070109 Minefield/3.0a2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070109 Minefield/3.0a2pre

This was proposed back in 2000: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55929#c8

There is apparently no other way for a binding to style the explicit children of a bound element (I'm trying to do it now and this is what I find), this was to be the solution, and in fact, everybody seems to think it's already implemented. e.g. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XBL:XBL_1.0_Reference:Anonymous_Content

The XBL 1.0 spec even preaches about the attribute, so that's probably why. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xbl/xbl.html#stylesheet

It is quite a disappointment, after all of this, to find that styleexplicitchildren isn't implemented *after all these years* (but finally, a bug is created for it). I'm not the only person to feel this way. http://groups.google.com/group/netscape.public.mozilla.xbl/tree/browse_frm/month/2003-10/bb17a6159b214034?rnum=21&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fnetscape.public.mozilla.xbl%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F2003-10%3F

Testcase tomorrow if all goes well.

See also: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55929 particularly the end of the discussion.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please see the XBL2 spec proposals.  XBL1 is basically in maintenance mode at this point.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I just realized that this is basically a duplicate of bug 55929, which is mentioned in comment 0....