- From: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:48:18 -0700
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Jon Barnett <jonbarnett at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> 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
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