Re: Making selectors first-class citizens

On Sep 17, 2013, at 5:48 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
>> What's a new rendering engine supposed to do?  Implement one of the prefixed
>> versions?  Break content?  Implement the unprefixed version? I'd say that if
>> the answer to any of those is "yes" without the spec saying so, then the
>> spec is useless here.
>> 
>> This is not an academic question, of course.
> 
> Right, if we cannot remove the prefixed variant we'll have to
> reconsider this as I said many many emails ago.

I'm also curious to know whether there are enough Web content (particularly mobile) that assume the existence of *MatchesSelector or matchesSelector.  If there are, we should probably stick with matchesSelector.

- R. Niwa

Received on Tuesday, 17 September 2013 19:07:10 UTC