- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:40:11 -0700
- To: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
- Cc: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com>, John Resig <jeresig@gmail.com>, Paul Irish <paulirish@google.com>
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com> wrote:
> There's a corner case I haven't formed an opinion on though:
>
> el.find("div span :scope .whatevs");
>
> ...does what? I think it's an error. ":scope" will need to occur in
> the first term or not at all for .find().
Disagree. If :scope appears in the selector, just match across the
whole document. It's simple and useful. (It's equivalent to
document.querySelector("div span :scope .whatevs", el), except shorter
and amenable to chaining.)
~TJ
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