Re: [Selectors API 2] Is matchesSelector stable enough to unprefix in implementations? from Aryeh Gregor on 2011-11-23 (public-webapps@w3.org from October to December 2011)

From: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:39:33 -0500
To: Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com>
Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <CAKA+Axn7wOjGbBLyYPs0wxOf76AdQkNManMbhv03_HHNi5VKVg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com> wrote:
> I like .is, the name jQuery uses for this purpose. Any reason not to go with
> it?

We might want it for something else.  .matches clearly sounds like
it's selector-related, and I have more trouble thinking of another
meaning we'd ever really want for it.

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