Selector: Reword a few comments

mgol · gibson042 · mgol · commit 5817baa575e7 · 2023-02-14T00:30:34.000+01:00
Co-authored-by: Richard Gibson &lt;richard.gibson@gmail.com&gt;
diff --git a/src/selector/rbuggyQSA.js b/src/selector/rbuggyQSA.js
@@ -24,10 +24,11 @@ if ( isIE ) {
 if ( !support.cssHas ) {
 
 	// Support: Chrome 105 - 110+, Safari 15.4 - 16.3+
-	// In some browsers, `:has()` uses a forgiving selector list as an argument,
-	// so our regular `try-catch` mechanism fails to catch `:has()` with arguments
-	// not supported natively, like `:has(:contains("Foo"))`. The spec now requires
-	// `:has()` parsing to be non-forgiving but browsers have not adjusted yet.
+	// Our regular `try-catch` mechanism fails to detect natively-unsupported
+	// pseudo-classes inside `:has()` (such as `:has(:contains("Foo"))`)
+	// in browsers that parse the `:has()` argument as a forgiving selector list.
+	// https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors/#relational now requires the argument
+	// to be parsed unforgivingly, but browsers have not yet fully adjusted.
 	rbuggyQSA.push( ":has" );
 }
 
diff --git a/src/selector/support.js b/src/selector/support.js
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@ import document from "../var/document.js";
 import support from "../var/support.js";
 
 // Support: Chrome 105 - 110+, Safari 15.4 - 16.3+
-// Make sure forgiving mode is not used in `:has()`.
-// `*` is needed as Safari & newer Chrome implemented something in between
-// for `:has()` - it throws in `qSA` if it only contains an unsupported
-// argument but multiple ones, one of which is supported, are fine.
-// We want to play safe in case `:is()` gets the same treatment.
-//
-// Note that we don't need to detect the complete lack of support for `:has()`
-// as then the `qSA` path will throw and fall back to jQuery traversal anyway.
+// Make sure the the `:has()` argument is parsed unforgivingly.
+// We include `*` in the test to detect buggy implementations that are
+// _selectively_ forgiving (specifically when the list includes at least
+// one valid selector).
+// Note that we treat complete lack of support for `:has()` as if it were
+// spec-compliant support, which is fine because use of `:has()` in such
+// environments will fail in the qSA path and fall back to jQuery traversal
+// anyway.
 try {
 	document.querySelector( ":has(*,:jqfake)" );
 	support.cssHas = false;
