Re: Element.matchesSelector

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> I sort of updated 
> http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2006/webapi/selectors-api/Overview.html?content-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8 
> to take all the discussion into account and decided that I like get() 
> and getAll() the best. I also introduced them on Element.
> 
> After having done all the editorial work there's one note in the 
> document that stops this from going to Last Call which is your 
> suggestion regarding Element.matchesSelector. Can you get the relevant 
> use cases now?

The use case would be doing things like XBL <content> nodes from pure JS.

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Received on Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:23:25 UTC