Re: "match a selectors string" in the DOM spec doesn't do what it wants to be doing from Anne van Kesteren on 2014-08-04 (www-dom@w3.org from July to September 2014)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 09:34:12 +0200
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CADnb78hzF_NYpK_Qrt=YpPBME3yNGAwE1g5oMx1JopHR5J4uOg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 8/1/14, 2:28 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> I can add whatever's needed, obviously.
>
> What's needed is something that takes a single element and the result of
> "parse a selector" [1] and returns a boolean for whether the parsed selector
> matches the element.
>
> [1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors/#parse-a-selector

If it started to return a boolean, the algorithm defined for
http://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-element-matches would no longer make
sense. Nor would numerous other algorithms in DOM.


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