- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:55:25 -0000
- To: "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:30:05 -0000, <karl@w3.org> wrote: > About http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-selectors-api-20060525/#introduction > > [[[ > It is often desirable to perform script and or > DOM operations on a specific set of elements in a document. > ]]] > > What are the benefits? > Why is it important? > How it makes the life of developers easier? It makes it easier to select a set of elements based on certain criteria (for example all <div> elements with a class of example) in a way that's consistent with how people are matching elements in CSS for instance. So instead of having to filter what getElementsByTagName returns you can directly filter it in the query. And given that implementations of Selectors are claimed to be pretty efficient it's expected this will be pretty efficient as well and most likely faster than a custom implementation of it. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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