- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:00:14 +0900
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
Le 19 sept. 06 à 19:55, Anne van Kesteren a écrit : > 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. The comment was not correctly framed, explained. Thanks for the explanation, but put it in the prose of the specification. Questions were here to foster a more detailed introduction giving context and inviting developers to understand the benefits of the technology. Please update the introduction. -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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