Re: Selectors: hooks needed by DOM

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Daniel Glazman
<daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote:
> On 12/09/13 16:40, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> http://dom.spec.whatwg.org/ now defines the "Selectors API", i.e. the
>> query/queryAll/querySelector/querySelectorAll methods and a new
>> Elements object that has query/queryAll.
>
> Thanks for the notification. Although I am glad to see read the
> Selectors API still has someone actively working on it, I can't help
> but thinking this had and still has a W3C WG host and the work on
> Selectors API should be continued there in liaison with CSS WG.

Where another spec is worked on is irrelevant to us.

> One issue though: The W3C always look at issues related to stability
> and patent commitments around specifications developed by other groups,
> so we review normative references on a case-by-case basis. In this
> case, DOM with Selectors API has issues with stability and patent
> commitments. The W3C Director has instructed us not to reference
> specifications showing such issues.

Does this instruction have a link?

Anyway, this isn't about Selectors referencing DOM, it's about making
it easier for DOM to reference Selectors.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 24 September 2013 20:59:10 UTC