Re: Supporting Scoped Selectors in Selectors API 2 from Boris Zbarsky on 2009-09-29 (www-style@w3.org from September 2009)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:46:23 -0400
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
CC: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4AC21DBF.9050907@mit.edu>

On 9/29/09 6:24 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> I'm also not convinced this "problem" needs a special solution. If
> JavaScript libraries want to continue to support their own magic syntax
> they can add a very simple pre-processing step themselves. No need to
> complicate everything because of that.

Really?  As far as I can tell the "simple pre-processing step" needs to 
be full-blown selector parsing, unless you want it to break in edge cases.

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:47:32 UTC