On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Jon Barnett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >From my point of view I'm not sure how interesting this whole feature >> is. We had support in firefox for XPointer for many years and saw >> little to no uptake. I'm not sure if anyone complained when we removed >> the support even (which would be pretty remarkable). >> >> / Jonas > > Was it advertized? I follow Firefox closely enough, but I don't remember > when XPointer was supported. Was it supported by other browsers? It would > be rare in the wild if it's only supported by Firefox. Do other browsers > have easy scripting support for XPath?
IE, FF, and modern Safari/Chrome versions all support some version of xpath queries against the HTML DOM. I don't know that any of them include xpointer support. That said, CSS seems to be the winner as far as node selection/location languages go. Regards
