Bug 46591

Summary:	[Meta] Implement CSS parser in C++
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Dimitri Glazkov (Google) <dglazkov>
Component:	CSS	Assignee:	Dave Hyatt <hyatt>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	Enhancement	CC:	abarth, annevk, ap, arv, cmarcelo, eoconnor, hyatt, jonlee, martijn, peter, phiw2, simon.fraser, skyul, webkit-bug-importer, webmaster
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	InRadar
Version:	528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Bug Depends on:	161095, 161174, 161537, 161695, 161749, 161813, 161868, 161916, 161931, 162018, 162033, 162078, 165213
Bug Blocks:	16708, 46590

Description Dimitri Glazkov (Google) 2010-09-26 16:33:53 PDT

Get rid of the existing bison-based parser, implement our own parser, fix bugs and improve extensibility in the process

Comment 1 Adam Barth 2010-09-26 16:43:42 PDT

Is there a spec for how a CSS parser should work?  Can we produce a spec at the same time as we produce the implementation?

Comment 2 Simon Fraser (smfr) 2010-09-26 19:48:01 PDT

One major win here would be better error reporting.

Comment 3 Anne van Kesteren 2010-09-26 23:51:37 PDT

There is nothing apart from the grammar plus prose combination the current specifications have. Having an HTML5-like specification for this would be really great.

Comment 4 Alexey Proskuryakov 2010-09-27 10:51:14 PDT

I can already see a bug filed three years later: get rid of messy-crashy-buggy-slow manually maintained CSS parser code, replace it with autogenerated one :)

Comment 5 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2015-10-16 11:14:11 PDT

<rdar://problem/23146798>

Comment 6 Dave Hyatt 2016-12-06 09:05:14 PST

Turned on (see bug 165213).