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dojo.query: A CSS Query Engine For Dojo

2007-02-05 08:19

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dojo.query is a CSS Selector Query engine that performs very well in Opera and WebKit nightlies, tolerably in Firefox. MSIE performance is left at the mercy of IE engineers lack of support for XPath on the HTML DOM

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Being compatible with the dark matter of the web

2006-11-17 10:29

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On being compatible (or incompatible) with various non-standards

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Pandora's Box (Model) of CSS Hacks And Other Good Intentions

2005-11-27 16:15

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Tantek has a lengthy post about CSS, hacks. This is a must-read, particularily if you happen to be a developer on the IE team. One particularily interesting sentence is this:

CSS2 doesn’t say you can implement part of the spec. You’re supposed to implement the whole spec in the first place.

Which, when being constantly reminded by the IE team that they will implement improved selector support in IE7, without fixing every other problem they might have, by my (rather free) transliteration becomes:

Please don’t mess up the web once again, Microsoft.

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