On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Alex Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Ugg...I knew I shouldn't have hit "send". IE does not support XPath on the HTML dom, but does support it on XML documents. Sorry for the misinformation. Regards > 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 >
