[css2] added the :hover pseudo-class, Ian could you check terminology?

howcom · howcom · commit 0623e17b1dcc · 1998-01-15T22:11:57.000Z
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diff --git a/css2/selector.src b/css2/selector.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN'>
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: selector.src,v 1.46 1998-01-15 17:11:14 ijacobs Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: selector.src,v 1.47 1998-01-15 22:11:57 howcome Exp $ -->
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <title>Selectors</title>
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ DIV P.myclass *[href]
 
 <h2><a name="child-selectors">Child selectors</a></h2>
 
-<p>A <span class="index-def" title="child selector"> <em>child
+<p>A <span class="index-def" title="child selector"><em>child
 selector</em></span> matches when an element is the <a
 href="conform.html#doctree">child</a> of some element. A child
 selector is made up of two or more selectors separated by "&gt;".
@@ -910,11 +910,11 @@ descend from A elements that have not yet been visited:</p>
 
 <h3><a name="anchor-pseudo-classes">Anchor pseudo-classes</a>:
 <span class="index-def" title="pseudo-classes:::link|:link">:link,</span>
-<span class="index-def" title="pseudo-classes:::active|:active">:active,</span> and <span class="index-def" title="pseudo-classes:::visited|:visited">:visited</span>
+<span class="index-def" title="pseudo-classes:::active|:active">:active,</span>, 
+<span class="index-def" title="pseudo-classes:::visited|:visited">:visited</span>, and
+<span class="index-def" title="pseudo-classes, :hover|:hover">:hover</span>
 </h3>
 
-<!-- <span class="index-def" title="pseudo-classes, :hover|:hover">:hover</span>-->
-
 <p>User agents commonly display unvisited links differently from
 previously visited ones. CSS2 allows authors to specify the rendering
 of a link in one of several states:</p>
@@ -923,28 +923,29 @@ of a link in one of several states:</p>
 <li> The :link pseudo-class applies for links that have
 not yet been visited.
 
-<!--
-<li> The :hover pseudo-class applies when the user designates,
-but does not activate, a link. User agents may require a minimal
-time delay before considering that a user has designated a link.
--->
+<li> The :hover pseudo-class applies when the user designates, but
+does not activate, a link. For example, a visual user agent could
+apply this pseudo-class when the cursor hovers over an element. [or,
+in our terminology, do cursors only hover over boxes? -howcome]
 
 <li> The :active pseudo-class applies while the link is being
 activated by the user.
+
 <li> The :visited pseudo-class applies once the link has been
 visited by the user. <strong>Note.</strong>
 After a certain amount of time, user agents may choose to 
 return a visited link to the (unvisited) 'link' state.
+
 </ul>
 
-<P>The three states are mutually exclusive.
+<P>The four states are mutually exclusive.
 
 <pre>
   A:link { color: red }       /* unvisited links */
   A:active { color: lime }    /* active links    */
   A:visited { color: blue }   /* visited links   */
+  A:hover { color: yellow }   /* user hovers     */
 </pre>
-<!--  A:hover { color: yellow }   /* user hovers     */ -->
 
 
 <p>User agents are not required to reformat a currently displayed
