Re: [Selectors API 2] Is matchesSelector stable enough to unprefix in implementations?

On 22/11/11 7:14 PM, Roland Steiner wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 14:19, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com 
> <mailto:wycats@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Yehuda Katz
>     (ph) 718.877.1325 <tel:718.877.1325>
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>     On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu
>     <mailto:bzbarsky@mit.edu>> wrote:
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>         On 11/21/11 11:31 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
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>                 1)  Make sense.
>                 2)  Not break existing content.
>                 3)  Be short.
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>             .matches
>             .is
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>     I like .is, the name jQuery uses for this purpose. Any reason not
>     to go with it?
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> IMHO 'is' seems awfully broad in meaning and doesn't very well 
> indicate that the parameter should be a selector. Inasmuch I like 
> .matches better.
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> Also, FWIW, an 'is' attribute on elements was/is in discussion on this 
> ML as one possibility to specify components.
>

Funnily enough, I've just been talking to the DOM5 and DOM6 API 
designers and they said almost exactly the same thing.