What italic means
What italic means
Finally an image that dispells all myths about the element. As you can see it’s all about presentation. Disappear you foul demon! (You have more HTML humor? Show me in the comments)
Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline
Paul Irish put together a bit of history in the form of the Javascript CSS selector engine timeline which shows us that “selector processing power has gone from Pinto power to a Mustang GT 500.” 2003.03.25: document.getElementsBySelector() by Simon Willison (later used in behaviour.js) [source] 2005.08.19: CssQuery(): by Dean Edwards [source] 2005.08.22: jSelect (precursor to […]
Paul Irish put together a bit of history in the form of the Javascript CSS selector engine timeline which shows us that “selector processing power has gone from Pinto power to a Mustang GT 500.”
- 2003.03.25: document.getElementsBySelector() by Simon Willison (later used in behaviour.js) [source]
- 2005.08.19: CssQuery(): by Dean Edwards [source]
- 2005.08.22: jSelect (precursor to jQuery) [source]
- 2006.01.18: Prototype. Initial release of selector engine. [source]
- 2006.03.21: jQuery first release. [source]
- 2006.04.04: moo.dom (precursor to mootools) [source]
- 2006.08.26: jQuery 1.0 [source]
- 2006.11.14: Mochikit Selector. (orig. ported from prototype) [source]
- 2007.01.08: jQuery 1.1a (”10-20x faster than 1.0″) [source]
- 2007.01.11: DomQuery by Jack Slocum (ExtJS). [source]
- 2007.02.05: dojo.query(). [source]
- 2007.05.01: Prototype 1.5.1 [source]
- 2007.05.07: Mootools 1.1 [source]
- 2007.07.01: jQuery 1.1.3 (”800% faster”) [source]
- 2007.07.10: Ext 1.1 RC1 [source]
- 2007.12.04: YUI 2.4.0 [source]
Thanks to all of the innovations along the way, and to Paul to putting this together.