On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Yehuda Katz wrote:
Yehuda Katz
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoe...@gmx.net> wrote:
* Yehuda Katz wrote:
>Most people would accomplish that using jQuery. Something like:
>
>var previous = $(current).closest("tr").prev()
>
>I'm not exactly sure what `current` is in this case. What edge-cases are
>you worried about when you say that the JavaScript is "quite involved"?
It is unlikely that your code is equivalent to the code I provided, and
sure enough, you can point out in all discussions about convenience APIs
that people could use a library. I don't see how that is relevant here.
It's relevant because Tab's argument is that a mix of selectors and JS APIs
will work, and I'm demonstrating that by showing that that's what *people
actually do* today.
Of course that can be taken in one of two ways; it either shows that it's
fine to have a limited selection DSL because people can fall back on using
a full programming language, or shows that today's selction DSLs have
failed because people are being forced to fall back on a full programming
language and the whole of jQuery to satisfy their needs.
