Supporting CSS4 standards within Less

With the advent of CSS2 and CSS3, it is natural to assume that CSS4 will arrive at some point in the future. You are probably wondering how it might affect CSS preprocessors—let's take a look at what CSS4 is likely to mean for Less.

Officially, there is no such thing as CSS4. Strange as it might seem, we won't see the appearance of a new global standard; CSS4 instead will be grouped under smaller headings, of which each will have its own level. There is still a long way to go, but one of the groupings that is closest to being finalized is CSS4 Selectors.

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You can see more details about the proposed changes for CSS Selectors in the W3C's draft proposal at http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors4/. There is an interesting ...

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