On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Zirak A <zi...@mail.com> wrote: > But that's a bit looking at it backwards. Selectors are supposed to be an > abstraction over these methods, not the other way around. The point here is > that > document fragments are documents - so they should have a consistent API. > Adding this isn't about "backwards compatibility" or anything of the sort. > It's > adding methods that people already use, because as said, not everyone uses > selectors (and not just because of browser-compat).
No, they're not. You're rewriting history. Selectors were never meant as a layer over those methods; they were a completely separate and independently-invented way to target elements for CSS's purposes. I'm not sure of the precise dates, but I know that Selectors precede at least some of those properties, maybe all. Selectors are a better way to query documents, and they're extremely well-known. All of the old DOM query methods translate directly into simple selectors - qS("#foo"), qSA(".foo"), qSA("foo"), or qSA("[name=foo]"). ~TJ