Selectors API changes

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Sean Hogan

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Jan 2, 2012, 6:05:44 AM1/2/12

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The current draft of Selectors API Level 2 has some significant
changes you may be interested in. The draft is at
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-api2/

The major changes are:

1. The proposed element.matchesSelector() has been renamed to
matches()

2. There are two new methods - find() and findAll() - which support
*relative* selectors, such as "> div.foo span" or "+ div.bar span".
Read the spec to get the details.

If you have any comments on these then contact the relevant group
list.

regards,
Sean

Dean Edwards

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Jan 2, 2012, 12:28:09 PM1/2/12

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On 02/01/2012 11:05, Sean Hogan wrote:
> The current draft of Selectors API Level 2 has some significant
> changes you may be interested in. The draft is at
> http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-api2/
>
> The major changes are:
>
> 1. The proposed element.matchesSelector() has been renamed to
> matches()
>
> 2. There are two new methods - find() and findAll() - which support
> *relative* selectors, such as "> div.foo span" or "+ div.bar span".
> Read the spec to get the details.
>

Thanks for this. I'd already partially implemented the :scope pseudo
class. Hopefully, the spec won't change again.