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
