On Wednesday 2014-02-05 03:55 +0000, Sylvain Galineau wrote:
> A recurring debate in the WG - both last week in Seattle and at previous meetings - pitted new combinators vs. pseudo-elements. The former are generally deemed too cryptic as well as unsustainable: there are only so many non-alphanumeric characters left on our keyboard, yet enough of them that adding more just makes things more confusing. As a result, I have heard a few times: "We should stop adding combinators and use pseudo-elements instead".
An additional disadvantage of combinators is being unsearchable.
Try typing "css +" or "css ~" into your favorite [1] search engine.
-David
[1] I tested both Google Search and Bing, and got poor results
(i.e., equivalent to "css") on both.
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