Re: [css-forms][css-ui] Styling native components, a proposal

Yes, those hacks do exist, and are not invalid, and are necessary sometimes. Changing that for existing pseudos would break layouts. It would be OK for new pseudos though, I think.

> On Mar 26, 2016, at 6:14 PM, Amelia Bellamy-Royds <amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I realize that suggesting a change to the fundamental CSS parsing rules could have wide-reaching implications.  However, I'd be interested in whether anyone can come up with practical examples where changing an invalid selector to a valid-but-doesn't-match-anything selector would break existing code.  Possibly there are horrible hacks for targetting CSS to specific browsers that rely on this behavior, but that's all I can think of.