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Fast DOM Queries in Today’s Browsers

Author: techno  Category: Tutorials | Add Comment

What follows is a janky hack. If you do not have the stomach for things that are useful in the real world, please stop reading here. “But it’s not standards compliant!” comments will receive no sympathy. Validatorians, you’ve been warned.If you’re still reading, you’re probably aware of the crappy primitives that the W3C has bestowed us with for scripting arbitrary collections of nodes. Things like Microsoft’s HTC and Mozilla’s XBL allow for browser-specific markup-upgrade paths but these aren’t really feasible in the “real world” since they require lots of code branching and different semantics for attaching a behavior.

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