Re: Making selectors first-class citizens

On Sep 12, 2013 2:16 AM, "Garrett Smith" <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> FWD'ing to put my reply back on list (and to others)...
>
> On Sep 11, 2013 6:35 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
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> 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
>
> var sel = new Selectors("i > love > selectors, so[much]")
> sel.test(node)
>
> # 2007 David Anderson proposed the idea.
>
> 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. :-))
>
> # 2009 the API design remerged
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JulSep/1445.html
>
> # 2010 Selectors explained in an article:
> http://www.fortybelow.ca/hosted/dhtmlkitchen/JavaScript-Query-Engines.html
> (search Query Matching Strategy).
> --
> Garrett
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I may be the only one, but... I am unsure what you are advocating here
Garrett.