CSS Selector Complexity : Working draft document

Here's a non-normative document that can be used in the WG as base for finding the complexity of a selector.




I'm working on this document for a week only, so it can contains errors, but I think is quite accurate and realist.

My English is not perfect, too. So the spelling and grammar might be to revalidate.



Currently, two types of complexity are taken in count:

- Loop Complexity (or static complexity: time needed to find matching elements at load time)

- Update Complexity (number of times the matched elements can be reevaluated * time it need)

==> Are you seeing another type of complexity easily calculable?

 

Some numbers were "arbitrary" selected, but I followed the impressions that I have as web developer on

how a document is generally made and edited dynamically on the web.



Any remark and (constructive) criticism is greatly appreciated, 

Regards,

Fremy

 

    PS : 

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    * This document is not a "true" CSS 3 Module since it doesn't need to be implemented by the UA but it gives

    a good base for evaluating the possibilities of introducing a new selector or not to CSS, and it provides some 

    information to web developers on how selectors are evaluated by the UA. 

    

    * I voluntary excluded the optimizations that can be done by the UA because they are probably not the same 

    on each browser, except a few one that I know universal (ID indexer, ...).



    * Numbers we can found using this document are not "absolute" result. They are only here to give an idea of 

    how complex is a selector, but there's no absolute unit. 



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