diff --git a/components/layout/wrapper.rs b/components/layout/wrapper.rs
index 928ae1777ac..96540e4299c 100644
--- a/components/layout/wrapper.rs
+++ b/components/layout/wrapper.rs
@@ -1341,6 +1341,18 @@ impl TextContent {
     }
 }
 
+/// This implementation of `::selectors::Element` is used for implementing lazy
+/// pseudo-elements.
+///
+/// Lazy pseudo-elements in Servo only allows selectors using safe properties,
+/// i.e., local_name, attributes, so they can only be used for **private**
+/// pseudo-elements (like `::-servo-details-content`).
+///
+/// Probably a few more of this functions can be implemented (like `has_class`,
+/// `each_class`, etc), but they have no use right now.
+///
+/// Note that the element implementation is needed only for selector matching,
+/// not for inheritance (styles are inherited appropiately).
 impl <'le> ::selectors::Element for ServoThreadSafeLayoutElement<'le> {
     type Impl = ServoSelectorImpl;
 
diff --git a/components/style/selector_impl.rs b/components/style/selector_impl.rs
index b424affb101..925ccb816ef 100644
--- a/components/style/selector_impl.rs
+++ b/components/style/selector_impl.rs
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ use stylesheets::Stylesheet;
 /// computed when needed, and not before. They're useful for general
 /// pseudo-elements that are not very common.
 ///
+/// Note that in Servo lazy pseudo-elements are restricted to a subset of
+/// selectors, so you can't use it for public pseudo-elements. This is not the
+/// case with Gecko though.
+///
 /// Precomputed ones skip the cascade process entirely, mostly as an
 /// optimisation since they are private pseudo-elements (like
 /// `::-servo-details-content`).
@@ -26,8 +30,7 @@ use stylesheets::Stylesheet;
 /// (rules of the form `*|*`), and applying them to the parent style.
 ///
 /// If you're implementing a public selector that the end-user might customize,
-/// then you probably need doing the whole cascading process and return true in
-/// this function for that pseudo (either as Eager or Lazy).
+/// then you probably need to make it eager.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub enum PseudoElementCascadeType {
     Eager,