see upcoming attached testcase, on hover the textcolor changes because of the font tag around it, which has a class with a :hover selector.
Created attachment 2406 [details] testcase
Reported by ashanks on #webkit
Yeah, this should be an easy fix. I'm not sure where the pseudo-style disallowing code is. cssstyleselector.cpp would be my first guess. This is probably a <5 minute fix for anyone familiar enough with the pseudo style system.
I think this is a bad reduction. Firefox shows the hover color on the test case, but not on the original page.
Created attachment 6396 [details] test case reduction, #2 This reduction shows the same behaviour as the reported page.
IE doesn't change color in the second testcase, we do, should be fixed.
The fix for bug 7218 will prevent the text from changing color in the second testcase, but I don't know whether this bug is simply a dupe of bug 7218. I guess a more specific testcase is needed here.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7218 ***