Re: Features and fixes incompatible with backward compatibility

On 20 Feb, 2012, at 4:25 AM, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:

>  Perhaps the descendant combinator in selectors shouldn't have been
>  easier to type than all the other combinators.

Agreed. I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that it was the only combinator in CSS1 (called a "contextual selector", IIRC). After all, the child and sibling combinators debuted in CSS2, and they weren't even called combinators until the Selectors 3 spec.

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Received on Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:49:53 UTC