sizzle

I wondered the same thing so let me save you the search: > http://help.dottoro.com/ljlumkqh.php The page implies that there is limitations to the IE8 implementation, and that it's only available in relatively recent browsers. In addition, I believe that sizzle implements a set of selectors larger than most or all browsers support natively, although this I am less sure of; the Sizzle documentation certainly implies it strongly: > https://github.com/jeresig/sizzle/wiki

We aren't really talking about the features of this release, yet, since we want people to focus on testing (to make sure we didn't break anything). But here's a rough breakdown of the code that's in: New Selector Engine (Sizzle: http://github.com/jeresig/sizzle/tree/master). Much faster than previous engine, going to be in many of the major libraries. No more browser sniffing (currently being discussed here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7l2mr/jquery_re...). .closest() method - extremely useful for event delegation. // Returns this or closest ancestor that matches selector $(this).closest("div"); .live() - Super-simple event delegation. // Will handle clicks on all elements that match selector // even if new ones are added later $("#foo > div").live("click", someFn); .offset() rewrite - significantly f

Sizzle: http://github.com/jeresig/sizzle Nu: http://github.com/timburks/nu Emacs Starter Kit: http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit Cappuccino: http://github.com/280north/cappuccino

My major complaint with a table based layout isn't a semantic one, it is a pragmatic one. Put a colspan or rowspan in your html and you've coupled your design/layout to your markup. Still though, it is often easier to make this compromise. The hope here is that we ultimately get the best of all worlds. Easy grid layouts AND markup/presendation decoupling AND strong semantics. jQuery's John Ressig may speed up the day that comes: http://github.com/jeresig/sizzle/tree/master http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/10/22/javascript-will...