From: Gus Richter on
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>
> re. the :first-letter pseudoelement. Well, _you just can't use_
> _pseudoelements in inlined CSS code_.


It could have if there had been follow-through on a 6 year old draft:

<http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css-style-attr-20020515>

Now on a Low Priority CSS 3 list.

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Gus