On Mar 14, 2008, at 1:56 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
I think ability to do element-rooted selector queries (either
through a new method or a :scope pseudo-element) is more important,
since it's needed to replicate the feature set of JS query libraries.
If we could get a :scope pseudo-element that would be an excellent
solution IMHO, and would be great with scoped stylesheets as has
been pointed out elsewhere in the last few days.
Is that something that should be defined by this WG? It would suck
to have to wait for Level 4 Selectors. Other WGs have defined
selectors, but I'm not sure how good of an idea that is.
I would prefer to see it in the Selectors spec, but it would have to
come out of CR for that. Perhaps the editor of the Selectors spec
(Hixie) would like to weigh in. Alternately, we could temporarily
define the pseudo-element in the Selectors API spec.
The alternative, defining another set of methods would be something
that we could do, but that solution feels a lot less appealing.
I agree, :scope seems more elegant, and parallel methods can't handle
the "> span" immediate children use case very nicely.
Regards,
Maciej
