- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:48:41 -0700
- To: Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>
- Cc: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>, "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote: >> There are >> literally zero scripts which depend on the name "matchesSelector", >> because it's never worked anywhere. They might depend on the prefixed >> variants, but that's a separate issue to deal with. > > I think Francois shared a github search with shows almost 15,500 uses > expecting matchesSelector. I think we all agree these should work just fine > as long as prefixes remain - but that's the point... With that many, why > worry about when someone wrote their code or unprefixing or lots more > emails. Seems an acceptable amount of cruft to me in this case. Having > said that, I promise I will make no further case :) That code isn't depending on matchesSelector, it's depending on fooMatchesSelector *or* matchesSelector. As long as the former works, it's fine - we don't need to add the latter as well. ~TJ
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