Hi Pete, Eric and Ingmar,
I've spent quite some time making Brian Donovan's attribute selectors
for $$() IE6 compatible* and extending it with *=, ^= and $= selectors
and the negation selector :not(X).
These were the selectors I was really missing and thought could be the
most useful. I purposely limited their number to keep the library
lightweight.
I added a bunch of tests and my patch here:
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5170
I'm already using this patch to great success in an application I'm
currently working on.
Your comments, suggestions, enhancement requests or bug reports are of
course more then welcome.
Hope this also answers some of your needs.
Best regards,
Tobie
* There where various issues regarding IE6's way of rendering
getAttribute in case of empty attributes versus non-existing ones, and
peculiarities in it's handling of the href attribute. These, by the
way, have been documented since by Glenn Jones:
http://www.glennjones.net/Post/809/getAttributehrefbug.htm.
Hi Pete and Eric,
Eric Anderson wrote:
> We can just use selectors. CSS selectors are very good as specifying
> elements in a document.
That's exactly what I thought, too.
Using $$() is IMHO the way to go, and keeps us from adding more and
more
getElementsByWhatever() functions.
Enhancing the generic $$() function to fully support (unit testable)
CSS2 selectors while maintaining reasonable performance, would be the
real challenge.
cheers
Ingmar
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