RE: [selector-profiles] confusion

On Jul 10, 2013 9:58 AM, "François REMY" <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>
wrote:
>
> > Is the recommendation to explicitly not
> > support the complete profile in sheets?
> > I keep hearing it sort of presented that
> > way and i find the names a little
> > confusing - they make it sound like
> > nothing more than "these selectors are
> > slower"...
>
> It would probably be a nice idea to name them in function of what they
can do, indeed. It’s true that in the case of static selectors, most of the
selectors in the “slow” profile will not be much slower than the others,
it’s more the fact that keeping them up-to-date is costly.
>
> What about “Live Selectors” and “Static Selectors” (the former being
selectors you can actually use in your stylesheets since they can
live-update, and the latter being the ones that you can only use in
qS/qSA-like use-cases)?

It seems to me that initial/progressive matching is the big problem... It's
not actually that difficult or even super expensive to match post update,
right?  Is it feasible to break them down that way?  "You may experience
fouc with these, they don't run until post complete"?

Received on Wednesday, 10 July 2013 14:17:05 UTC