When adding tablesorter to my site today, I came across a very counter- intuitive behaviour of two of jQuery's selectors: ":odd" and ":even". While it is clearly documented that they do start counting at zero, there seems to be little reason (apart from backwards compatibility) to label odd elements as :even, and even elements as :odd. Furthermore, the ease of typing of :odd and :even instead of :nth-child (*), make them the first choice of developers (such as tablesorter's), who might expect more straightforward behavior.
I propose is to, in the next jQuery version, change the ":odd" and ":even" selectors so they behave exactly like :nth-child(odd) and :nth- child(even), respectively. Alternatively, :odd and :even could be deprecated in favor of the :nth-child(*) selectors, so as to not break any existing code, but discouraging new developers from using the counter-intuitive selectors. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
