- From: Geoffrey Sneddon via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:13:53 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> You can't pay attention to just Selectors. Why not? Why should I, when implementing `document.querySelector`, think to look at any actual CSS spec? Why can I not just read Selectors and follow all cross-references to implement it? Given Selectors is a relatively stand-alone spec, I was assuming we were just using some BNF syntax definition! (I don't know if this was @oyvind-stenhaug's misunderstanding, too.) And I'll point out we don't have interop here so I don't think we're in "everyone knows what we mean" camp, unless this has changed over time? Equally, given both me and Øyvind misunderstood this, I think that's obviously not true. If two people who are/were in the WG get this wrong, then heaven help someone outwith of it trying to implement it! > I guess I could put some redundant text being super-explicit about this? This runs real close to the "uh, obviously it means X" thing; we rely on a lot of implicit context in our definitions. I understand that you're coming at it from an "assume nothing, test everything" perspective, but still. ^_^ I won't deny that bit is down the anal end of the spectrum. :) -- GitHub Notification of comment by gsnedders Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/492#issuecomment-247470262 using your GitHub account
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