Re: [cssom] Serializing the ">>" combinator

On Feb 12, 2015 10:25 PM, "Simon Pieters" <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 00:05:45 +0400, Benjamin Poulain <benjamin@webkit.org>
wrote:
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>> On 2/12/15 1:22 AM, Simon Pieters wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:14:26 +0400, Benjamin Poulain <
benjamin@webkit.org> wrote:
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>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The serialization specification does not mention ">>" from CSS
Selectors level 4: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom/#serializing-selectors &&
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors-4/#descendant-combinators
>>>>
>>>> What we have done in WebKit is serialize ">>" like the other non-space
combinators (e.g. "foo>>bar" serialize to "foo >> bar").
>>>>
>>>> An other option is to canonicalize every descendant combinator to the
space character.
>>>
>>>
>>> I've specified it to serialize as a space, for two reasons:
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>> I am a bit surprised by this. I had the impression the WG favored ">>"
over the space.
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>
> Personally I see no reason to favor >>. The only reason I have seen for
it existing at all is that it makes for a "nice" family of combinators >,
>> and >>>. But it is possible that I'm missing something.

It's also required for some corner-cases with relative selectors.

>>> * It avoids having to remember which one was used when parsing
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> This is the stronger reason in my opinion. Also see
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0603.html

Agreed.

~TJ