- From: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:49:35 -0700
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Alex Russell <slightlyoff at google.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Jon Barnett <jonbarnett at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote: >>> >>> >From my point of view I'm not sure how interesting this whole feature >>> is. We had support in firefox for XPointer for many years and saw >>> little to no uptake. I'm not sure if anyone complained when we removed >>> the support even (which would be pretty remarkable). >>> >>> / Jonas >> >> Was it advertized?? I follow Firefox closely enough, but I don't remember >> when XPointer was supported.? Was it supported by other browsers?? It would >> be rare in the wild if it's only supported by Firefox.? Do other browsers >> have easy scripting support for XPath? > > IE, FF, and modern Safari/Chrome versions all support some version of > xpath queries against the HTML DOM. Ugg...I knew I shouldn't have hit "send". IE does not support XPath on the HTML dom, but does support it on XML documents. Sorry for the misinformation. Regards > I don't know that any of them > include xpointer support. That said, CSS seems to be the winner as far > as node selection/location languages go. > > Regards >
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