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matt_kantor • last Thursday at 7:01 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Problem is, the CSSOM models that more like this:

    <rule selector="h1, h2">
      <style>
        <property name="color" value="red" />
      </style>
    </rule>
Perhaps your takeaway from this is "the CSSOM is bad" (and I don't necessarily disagree), but it's what the "mistake" is talking about.

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IshKebab • last Thursday at 11:33 PM

I wouldn't say that, it's more that the CSSOM doesn't try to preserve comments, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. I think most uses cases for modifying CSS that care about comments (e.g. auto-formatters?) would need parsers that return the full CST anyway.

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