Re: [css3] Suggestion: Selector variables or “synonyms”

Jens Meiert wrote:
> Apparently, Carmelo Capinpin already suggested the concept in 2006 [1] (with few success, unfortunately [2]), but I may propose to consider something like “selector variables” in CSS 3 again in order to help both maintainability and style sheet efficiency.
> 
> The basic idea is to syntactically allow definitions like
> 
>   E = F;
> 
> … so that rules matching E would match F as well (and the other way around), while variable (or synonym) declarations could probably be located at the beginning of a style sheet or within a certain @-rule.
> 

Could you explain how this would interact with the cascade, in particular:

- how does it interact with !important rules;
- what is the scope of the effect.

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