jquery/standards — Issue #3: Available selectors don’t meet developer needs
Author: paulirish
Created: 2011-10-20 03:16:25+00:00
State: open

jQuery created a lot of sugar selectors that make finding relevant elements easier. It is now recommending against using many of them as they take a slow path and cannot leverage `querySelectorAll`. _Selectors Level 4_ should capture the selectors most used by jQuery developers.

## Action Items
* Identify what selectors in jQuery are in use and are currently not captured in _Selectors Level 4_

## References

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors4/