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Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

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197 points OuterVale | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 04:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.558s | source
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yread ◴[11 Dec 25 09:23 UTC] No.46229304[source]▶
I don't understand the point about comments. Why shouldn't they be allowed? What object model?

>Comments shouldn't have been allowed basically everywhere in CSS (compare to HTML, which basically only allows them where content goes), because it makes them basically unrepresentable in the object model, which in turn makes building editing directly on top of the object model impossible

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1. wedg_ ◴[11 Dec 25 09:36 UTC] No.46229381[source]▶
I'm guessing they mean that comments shouldn't be allowed everywhere, not that they shouldn't be allowed at all? i.e. CSS lets you put comments in many more places than HTML, in such a way that it's hard to practically impossible to represent in an AST? At least that's how I read it