>>The only selector string failing in your tests is the ".1st-p" which
>>correctly fails since the class name does not correspond to a valid
>>identifier.
Fixed. Thanks for the heads up.

TOALL:
Doesn't anybody know of any interesting failures with qSA? I'm not saying it
to be smug, I can't find any. I'm sure that it fails on some pseudos.

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Diego Perini <[email protected]>wrote:

> Nathan,
> the "querySelectorAll" method exists also on IE 8 in Standard Mode.
>
> In all IE versions < 9 there are problem with the "Universal selector"
> since their API methods returns text nodes included in the result set.
> This is not only a problem with "querySelectorAll", in fact on IE < 9
> also "getElementsByTagName" has the same problems with text nodes.
>
> There are several other bugs in IE < 9 related to elements selection
> API. The baseline for IE is that after retrieving the NodeList one
> need to go through it members discarding text nodes, comments and
> invalid elements.
>
> The conditional I prefer to use to filter appropriate nodes from the list
> is:
>
>    if (element.nodeName > '@') {
>      .... // it is an Element node
>    }
>
> also the standard one is:
>
>    if (element.nodeType == 1) {
>      .... // it is an Element node
>    }
>
> I prefer the first since it also helps discard fake "closed tags"
> elements for non recognized HTML5 elements, for example:
>
>    <abbr>NYC</abbr>
>
> could be recognized as two elements in some IE version <= 8, the first
> is the open tag "abbr", the second is the close tag "/abbr" which
> tagName/nodeName starts with a slash.
>
> The only selector string failing in your tests is the ".1st-p" which
> correctly fails since the class name does not correspond to a valid
> identifier.
>
>
> --
> Diego
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Nathan Sweet <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>Whats the difference in Chrome, FF? nodelist is non-live in all of them.
> > When I said unlike the others I meant the other IE versions, not the
> other
> > browsers, my bad :
> > It's kind of a moot point anyways, if it was implemented in <IE9 then it
> > might have been implemented correctly. What I was referring to is that in
> > <IE9 a lot of the selectors return nodelists that include intermittent
> text
> > nodes for the empty spaces, whereas other browsers don't do that. I was
> > referring to this particular quirk in <IE9, which prevents
> > Array.prototype.slice.call from being cross-browser friendly for node
> lists
> > for certain selector methods. Someone once told me that some libraries
> > remove all the white space between elements, but I don't actually see how
> > that could help as a spaced out innerHTML assignment could easily foul it
> > up.
> >
> > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Andrew Dodson <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Isn't that what its supposed
> >> to http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-api/#nodeselector
> >> Whats the difference in Chrome, FF? nodelist is non-live in all of them.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Nathan Sweet <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I meant <IE9, IE9 also only returns elements in its nodelists, unlike
> the
> >>> others.
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Andrew Dodson
> >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> querySelectorAll is enabled in IE9, checkout "ie9 testdrive".
> >>>>
> >>>> On 28 May 2011 19:50, "nathanJsweet" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> So I've been messing around with querySelectorAll. I've published
> >>>> a blog post about it which can be found at "nathansweet.me/
> >>>> queryselectorall",
> >>>> though I'm not really plugging the post, which actually doesn't have
> >>>> so
> >>>> much information concerning the method as it does a link to a page
> >>>> I've created that tests the method.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm asking anybody in this group who is interested take a look
> >>>> at this page (it can be found at "nathansweet.me/queryselectorall-
> >>>> rundown")
> >>>> and email me, respond to this post, or comment on the blog post any
> >>>> other selector ideas they can come up with. My goal would be to come
> >>>> up with an exhaustive list of selectors that I could then run through
> >>>> a multitude of browsers (I would, of course, share the results). I've
> >>>> already come up with some interesting failures that shouldn't be
> >>>> occurring,
> >>>> and I'm also interested to hear from people who've worked with the
> >>>> method extensively.
> >>>>
> >>>> Also am I wrong in thinking that since querySelectorAll isn't
> >>>> implemented in IE
> >>>> that it will always return only elements? Thus, is it safe to do
> >>>> Array.prototype.slice.call
> >>>> on any nodelist returned by querySelectorAll? I haven't thought of a
> >>>> case yet where
> >>>> this wouldn't be a bad idea, let me know.
> >>>>
> >>>> Also, if nobody helps it's no big deal, as I will be adding selectors
> >>>> to it over the coming weeks,
> >>>> so if you're into bookmarking it might be worth coming back for a
> >>>> second or third look.
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