Re: SAC java exceptions thrown

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Richard Lavoie <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was looking at a CSS parser in order to track "resource dependencies"
> referenced in CSS files and stumbled upon SAC which seemed to be a very good
> candidate for what I'm looking for.
>
> However, I'm currently having a problem using it because the parser seems to
> not like some declarations:
>
> 1. double colon pseudo element (for instance ::-webkit-input-placeholder)
> being unparseable and throwing an exception that the second : was
> unexpected.
>
> This is the culprit :
>
> ..form-container form input::-webkit-input-placeholder {
>   color: #9e9e9e;
>   font-weight: 400;
>   font-size: 13px;
>   font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;
> }
>
> 2. I also have problems when parsing media list with screen with logical
> operators :
>
> @media screen and (min-height: 420px) {
>   #login .login-content {
>     top: 50%;
>     transform: translate(0, -50%);
>   }
> }
>
> where it complains that "and" was unexpected and it expected "{" or ",".
>
> This css file returns no error when validated against the CSS validation
> service located at : https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
>
> Is it just because the spec and implementation is unfinished or is there a
> real problem in the parsing or is my CSS invalid somehow ?

Nothing is wrong with your CSS, that's just a bad/outdated parser.

~TJ