Re: Call for Consensus - Selectors Last Call

Gregory Reimer (the author of reglib) points out that 
Element.matchesSelector would be useful for event delegation.
See http://blogs.sun.com/greimer/entry/opera_10_will_suport_selector

It would also neatly tie in with NodeFilter in DOM-Traversal, 
facilitating something like a live querySelectorAll() during document load.

Unfortunately I had assumed it was in the spec. I've looked now and seen 
that it wasn't considered due to a lack of presented use cases, which 
seems non-sensical. matchesSelector() is to querySelectorAll() as 
tagName is to getElementsByTagName(). The only reason for it not to be 
in the spec is if it is harmful.

The only complication I can see is supporting the :scope pseudo-attribute.

cheers,
Sean


Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Lachy thinks the latest editor's draft[1] is ready for Last Call, 
> after responding to all the comments from last time (and removing the 
> NSResolver). The disposition of comments[2] explains what happened to 
> those comments.
>
> So this is a call for Consensus to publish the Editor's Draft [1] of 
> the Selectors API spec as a Last Call. Please respond before Monday 
> November 10. As always, silence is taken as assent but an explicit 
> response is preferred.
>
> Opera supports publication of this draft as a Last Call.
>
> [1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-api/
> [2] 
> http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-api/disposition-of-comments.html
>
> cheers
>
> Chaals
>

Received on Saturday, 6 December 2008 19:53:19 UTC