D to Javascript converter (a hacked up dmd)

James Miller james at aatch.net
Tue Mar 6 19:57:24 PST 2012


On 7 March 2012 16:51, Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 March 2012 at 03:46:45 UTC, James Miller wrote:
>>
>> However, I would like jQuery's CSS selector engine as a standalone
>> library, sooo much easier than complex DOM lookups
>
>
> CSS selector is built into all the browsers since IE8/FF3.5.
> The functions are element.querySelector and
> element.querySelectorAll.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc304119%28v=VS.85%29.aspx
> https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Document.querySelector
>
>
> If you need to support older browsers, I think jquery's
> engine is called Sizzle stand alone, but I just let it
> throw the method not found exception, and carry on without
> the javascript. It's not worth the size.

Oh right, I didn't know that, IE8 and FF3.5 are old enough that you
can use it without too much worry, older browsers can just have some
graceful fallback.

--
James Miller


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