amccollum/sel — comment on commit 8343a791548093b75c4fd97655d131c074fa0c57
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By rvagg:

Don't add me yet to Sel, I'm happy to do it through pull requests for now
as I'm not totally comfortable with the code like I am with Qwery but I'd
like to get up to speed as I have time.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Andrew McCollum <
reply@reply.github.com
> wrote:

> Actually, they seem to have changed it to `E!` in the [latest draft](
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors4). I thought about supporting both
> syntaxes for now, but it's easy to switch later if necessary.
>
> Yeah, I started the CSS4 work because I thought the subject selector
> seemed really useful -- I've often wanted a syntax for it in the past.
> Also, it gives more of a reason for Sel to exist if it actually allows you
> to do things you can't already do natively in Chrome (or Sizzle!). Sel
> already supported some things like compound selectors in `:not` and some
> things like `:matches` were very straight-forward to implement. The
> biggest thing left I want to add is `:nth-match()` which actually makes the
> :nth* pseudo-selector pattern useful.
>
> It wouldn't take you long to get up to speed on Sel if you wanted to have
> your own selector library. Just say the word if you want to be added as a
> contributor...
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