5864 2008-07-14 01:18:58 +0000 [selectors-api2] Add new method for filtering NodeLists 2009-09-26 21:48:37 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG HISTORICAL - Selectors API unspecified PC All RESOLVED FIXED http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2008Apr/0128.html P2 enhancement --- 1 lachlan.hunt lachlan.hunt jresig lachlan.hunt mike public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 21169 0 lachlan.hunt 2008-07-14 01:18:58 +0000 Need to investigate use cases for this. There was some prior discussion of this in IRC too with some suggestions. http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20080415#l-831 <Hixie> document.querySelector('a x').querySelector('b x') is equivalent to 'a b x, b a x' which can get much more complex 27610 1 lachlan.hunt 2009-09-23 09:44:56 +0000 Call this filterSelector() or something more appropriate. Feedback based on JQuery indicates that NodeList.querySelector() would iteratively run the the method on all nodes in the list and return the combined result. 27640 2 lachlan.hunt 2009-09-24 12:28:17 +0000 This issue does not really have any specific use cases that are worth addressing with a dedicated API. This can be covered by using the Array.filter() method with a callback function that uses a matches-selector API to determine if a given element matches. 27686 3 lachlan.hunt 2009-09-26 21:48:37 +0000 Re-resolving this as fixed as the scoped selector proposal in the current draft seems to adequately address the use cases as a side effect of the chosen solution for other cases.