On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Scott González <scott.gonza...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:45 PM, François REMY > <francois.remy....@outlook.com> wrote: >> >> If we add "matchesSelector" as an official alias to "matches" the same way >> "querySelector" and "querySelectorAll" will be aliases to "query" and >> "queryAll" soon, it should be possible to drop the prefixed version. This is >> possible, according to my definition of possible. > > Sorry about this being off-topic, but since query() keeps coming up as a > comparison, I think this is a relevant question: > > query() and queryAll() are going to be aliases? I thought the new names were > being created to fix the mismatch between how web developers think and how > querySelector() works, specifically only matching from within the context.
No, they're not aliases - I think maybe François got confused. They are indeed different functions, much closer to jQuery's .find() method. ~TJ