On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: > CSS selectors are the worst part of jQuery, I wish they weren't in it. > Sizzle is slow and bulky -- necessarily so considering what it does, > but a more sensible function-based API could have exposed a rich > feature set to users without introducing nearly so much overhead.
In recent browsers (including IE8), you should be able to implement selectors very efficiently with querySelector() and querySelectorAll(). I should hope jQuery does this. > PHP already provides XPath, which is integrated with the DOM extension > and is just as feature-rich as CSS. We use it in the ImageMap > extension. So if you wanted an insecure text protocol for DOM node > selection, you could just use that. Pretty much every web developer already knows selectors, though, while almost nobody uses XPath. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
