On: Help pick a syntax for CSS nesting

[tambourine_man]

AFAIK, this is just syntactic sugar. A shortcut.

It’s not scoping in the inheritance sense. The C in CSS is for cascading. Inheriting is the natural way to be for CSS

[dmitriid → tambourine_man]

Casacading !== inheritance. These are very different things. I wish we had inheritance (or traits) in CSS.

[tambourine_man → dmitriid]

Well tell me the difference then. We have cascading inheritance, that’s what CSS is all about.

Unless we’re using different definitions of the term

[dmitriid → tambourine_man]

Casacading alpplies to all elements in the cascade. Whether you want it or not.

At the same time it's impossible to say "hey, I want to inherit from that particular style", and not have the cascade apply to it. For example, I want a button and I don't want anything in the hierarchy above overriding its borders, or colors, or fonts, or...

[tambourine_man → dmitriid]

Oh, I see. Arbitrary non hierarchical opt-in inheritance. Or perhaps a cascading inheritance opt-out, and you could add classes back as you please. That would be cool.

Not sure how it would impact browser parsing and drawing, but it sure would be useful.