On 11/15/06, Rik Lomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Without sounding rude, I don't think I would ever use this and I don't
> think most developers would either. We need jQuery to be small and
> flexible, not a huge bloated framework like some of the other
> libraries (that I will leave nameless)... Maybe extending jQuery, or
> building a plug-in may be the way round this?

Yes, that would be nice. But currently there is no hook to use custom
selectors (other than `:something`, as
<http://www.malsup.com/jquery/expr/> demonstrates).

For me it's ok if this feature is not in the core as long as it can be
used as a plugin.


> On 15/11/06, Choan C. Gálvez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 11/15/06, Brian Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Personally, I'm noticing a lot of requests for XML namespace selection in
> > > the parser.  Can we get that into 1.1?  Apperently, making $('myns:div')
> > > would raise holy hell because it would clash with the pseudos, but
> > > $('myns|div') might be doable.
> >
> > +1 for namespace selection.
> >
> > In one of my current projects, we added custom attributes to form
> > elements to use them as widgets.
> >
> > As jQuery doesn't allow this kind of selection, we were forced to
> > invalidate our XHTML. God killed a kitty.
> >
> > I wouldn't like to do it again.
-- 
Choan
<http://choangalvez.nom.es/>
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