- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:45:21 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Tuesday 2012-08-28 17:00 -0400, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 8/28/12 3:37 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > >This isn't hard. It is, however, inelegant and *useless*. There is > >absolutely no reason to allow this, and it would simplify parsers the > >spec and parsers to disallow it. > > Actually, it would make the Gecko parser more complicated, because > there would have to be a special "get the next token even if it's a > comment" tokenizer mode or something. Right now getting the next > token can always skip over comments, which it wouldn't be able to do > with your proposed change. > > So I don't think this is simpler for parsers, in general. It might > be simpler for _your_ particular idea of a parser, perhaps. I would implement it by making '!important' its own token type, which would be simple enough, and I think indistinguishable. (I think it's also a simpler way of describing what Tab proposes than Tab's way. I still don't like it, though.) -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂
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