Re: Making selectors first-class citizens

On Sep 11, 2013 9:34 AM, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
>
> As far as I can tell Element.prototype.matches() is not deployed yet.
> Should we instead make selectors first-class citizens, just like
> regular expressions, and have this:
>
>   var sel = new Selectors("i > love > selectors, so[much]")
>   sel.test(node)
>
> That seems like a much nicer approach.
>
> (It also means this can be neatly defined in the Selectors
> specification, rather than in DOM, which means less work for me. :-))
>
>
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I like the idea, but matches has been in release builds for a long time,
right?  Hitch uses it.