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Karl Swedberg  
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From: Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 13:26:35 -0400
Local: Sat, Nov 1 2008 1:26 pm
Subject: Re: [jquery-dev] New Selector Engine Patch

Congratulations on nearing completion of this fantastic selector  
engine, John! Very exciting stuff.

--Karl

On Nov 1, 2008, at 11:37 AM, John Resig wrote:

> Hey Everyone -

> I've been working on a new selector engine for jQuery on-and-off again
> these past couple months and I finally have something ready to land:
> http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3563

> I've been working on the code for this project over here:
> http://github.com/jeresig/sizzle/tree/master

> (The end goal is to have this become the new default selector engine
> in a number of libraries - Prototype, MochiKit, Dojo, and TinyMCE have
> all expressed interest in using it, as well.)

> It passes the test suite in Firefox 3, Safari 3.1, and IE 6. There is
> one minor bug in Firefox 3.1 and another minor one in Opera 9.6 - both
> of which are specific browser bugs (and I'm filing appropriately) and
> neither of which are show stoppers.

> It's a considerable boost in performance over what we have now, in
> jQuery. I'll go into specific details later (once we're sure that
> there's no major bugs).

> Let me know if you have any questions and I'll be happy to answer them
> (although I'll be going out of town tomorrow for a week).

> --John


 
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