On 1/10/10 11:58 PM, Sean Hogan wrote:
Even if jQuery deprecates non-standard selectors, the current spec for
queryScopedSelector*() doesn't support the jQuery implicitly "scoped"
selector "> *".
As I understand it, jquery selectors on elements are always scoped in
the sense that they behave differently from the v1 Selectors API. In
particular, if I understand correctly, the behavior of:
element.querySelector("body div")
in matching all <div>s that are descendants of |element| and also
descendants of a <body> (which may be an _ancestor_ of |element|) is
different from the selector behavior in jquery.
Or did I understand incorrectly?
All that said, I just read the draft at
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-api2/ and I can't make heads or
tails of either what the new arguments to querySelector(All) are
supposed to mean (are they just an enumaration of the things :scope is
allowed to match during the selector evaluation?) or what
queryScopedSelector(All) is supposed to do. Am I just missing
something? Am I reading the wrong draft?
(I'd link to the "dated" version of the draft, in case it changes, but
that link is broken, sadly.)
In the following forms :scope is misleading:
element.queryScopedSelector(":scope + *")
element.queryScopedSelector(":scope ~ *")
and especially:
element.querySelector("* :scope *", refNode)
Can't exactly comment on this given the above....
-Boris