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8th February 2008 - Link Blog

querySelector and querySelectorAll. WebKit now supports the W3C Selectors API. Expect the various JavaScript libraries to add this as an optimisation to achieve massive speedups (Prototype are already working on it).

Posted 8th February 2008 at 11:21 am

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