On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:45 PM, François REMY <francois.remy....@outlook.com> wrote: >> Read the thread more closely - as always, we only suggest dropping >> prefixed variants *if possible*. > > Define possible.
"Can be done without too many pages breaking as a result", where "too many" is subjective. But dealing with prefixes has nothing to do with aliasing. > 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. query() isn't an alias for querySelector(). ~TJ