Well, thank you for all of that. I don't think I have more questions
ATM. :-)

On 17 août, 03:47, Thomas Aylott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, actually.
>
> IE8 implements QSA, but its QSA doesn’t support lots of the selectors that 
> are pretty standard for all JS-based selector engines.
> Some things in Slick are actually faster than in QSA alone. e.g. className 
> selectors in Slick use getElementsByClassName internally which is much faster 
> than QSA.
> QSA is very strict, it will throw an error if there’s the slightest error 
> with your selector or you use something it doesn’t support.
> Slick supports all kinds of awesome extensions. You can create your own 
> custom pseudoClasses and atrribute selectors. MooTools-Core uses that 
> extensibility a lot.
> QSA in browsers actually contains a few bugs that Slick fixes.
>
> — Tom Aylott – SubtleGradient – MooTools —
>
> On Aug 16, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Savageman wrote:
>
>
>
> > Are those Selectors engine supposed to run "better" than
> > querySelectorAll() which will be included in every browser? (except
> > old versions of IE)

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