- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:53:03 -0700
- To: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@kozea.fr>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@kozea.fr> wrote:
> Le 04/10/2012 00:30, Tab Atkins Jr. a écrit :
>> This is why, sadly, we need to preserve comments in the tokenizer.
>
> What do you mean by preserve? Even if the tokenizer eats comments, the
> tokens here should still be IDENT '(' rather then FUNCTION.
If it eats comments, it doesn't know how to re-serialize unless it's
context-aware. (It can't just put whitespace between every token,
because that might change the meaning of e.g. a selector.)
~TJ
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