- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 22:19:24 -0700
- To: John Resig <jresig@mozilla.com>
- Cc: public-webapi@w3.org
On Apr 30, 2008, at 1:37 PM, John Resig wrote: > > * Combinator-rooted Queries > > I read about some prior discussion concerning this (especially in > relation to DOMElement.querySelectorAll-style queries). This is an > important part of most libraries, as it stands. Maciej's proposed > solution of using :root to allow for front-leading combinators is > perfectly acceptable to me (where :root is made equivalent to the > element, not the document element). My most recent suggestion was to introduce a :scope pseudo-class for this instead of :root. I think this could also be used to do element scoped queries that work the way current JS libraries do: ":scope div > span" would find only a span child of a div that is somewhere in the current scope. Regards, Maciej
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