On Sep 12, 2013 2:16 AM, "Garrett Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > > FWD'ing to put my reply back on list (and to others)... > > On Sep 11, 2013 6:35 AM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote: > > As far as I can tell Element.prototype.matches() is not deployed yet. > Should we instead make selectors first-class citizens, just like > regular expressions, and have > > var sel = new Selectors("i > love > selectors, so[much]") > sel.test(node) > > # 2007 David Anderson proposed the idea. > > That seems like a much nicer approach. > > (It also means this can be neatly defined in the Selectors > specification, rather than in DOM, which means less work for me. :-)) > > # 2009 the API design remerged > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JulSep/1445.html > > # 2010 Selectors explained in an article: > http://www.fortybelow.ca/hosted/dhtmlkitchen/JavaScript-Query-Engines.html > (search Query Matching Strategy). > -- > Garrett > Twitter: @xkit > personx.tumblr.com >
I may be the only one, but... I am unsure what you are advocating here Garrett.
