On 02/03/07, Klaus Hartl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brice Burgess schrieb: > > John Resig wrote: > >> Unfortunately, not in any way that is universally practical. > >> > >> The div:first query is obviously improvable, but when you get into > >> queries like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" it becomes a lot less clear. > >> > >> I'll think about improving TAG:first/last - as that seems like a > >> common case, at least. > >> > > I see what you're saying. It is too bad there is no native DOM selector > > that supports an SQL like clause with LIMIT, ORDER BY, and of course > > compundable "attribute LIKE" support :) .. what would we need jQuery for > > then though? ;( > > It's in the works: > http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-api/ > > But that will take another few years I think. Until then we're lucky to > have jQuery. > > > > -- Klaus
Knowing how long the W3C takes on recommendations and the lack of willingness of a certain browser developer to keep up to date with them (and participate in creating them), it will be a lot longer than that (if ever). You could probably implement that with javascript now (preferably in a way not to depend on any other libraries), but it would not be as fast as if the browser did it natively. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
