Re: XPath and Selectors are identical, and shouldn't be co-developed

On 2011-11-29 21:24, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke@gmx.de>  wrote:
>> On 2011-11-29 20:07, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> Since XPath and Selectors are 95% overlapping in functionality and
>>> 100% overlapping in goals and overall structure, I believe it is a bad
>>> idea to try and develop both for the web platform.  Instead, we should
>>> ...
>>
>> The proposal wasn't to "develop" XPath as in "doing more work on the
>> expression language".
>>
>> What *was* proposed is to fix/standardize the API for XPath, which already
>> is part of the web platform.
>
> Speccing, implementing, and testing an API is also "developing",
> particularly when it appears there's a desire to spec, implement, and
> test a new, more convenient API that's currently proprietary to a few
> browsers.  For the reasons stated in my email, I believe this effort
> to be a bad idea.

Well, if people are ready to do the specification, implementation and 
testing work, what's the reason to stop them? Yes, I know, "opportunity 
cost". But guess what, that's not going to be a convincing argument for 
those who really want that feature.

Best regards, Julian