Re: [selectors5] Proposal for a pseudo combinator from Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com on 2012-04-06 (www-style@w3.org from April 2012)

From: Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com <mtanalin@yandex.ru>
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:42:29 +0400
To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
Cc: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>,fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>,"www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-Id: <211601333755750@web17.yandex.ru>

07.04.2012, 02:39, "Brad Kemper" <brad.kemper@gmail.com>:
> On Apr 5, 2012, at 4:44 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Similarly, what about something like "p::before:hover::marker"?
>>  That's difficult just for my eyes to parse.  ^_^  Redone as "p ::
>>  before:hover :: marker", it's immediately much more understandable.
>
> I disagree. I don't find it "much more understandable." In fact, I think having "::foo" as one chunk of text (no spaces) makes it much more clear that "foo" is not looking a <foo> element in the markup, but is instead something special (an element created by the CSS and then selected).

Exactly.

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