Tag: selector engine

Sly, New Selector Engine & How to Use in MooTools

You\’ve heard of selector engines right? The engine that parses the HTML to match a string argument to return matching HTML elements? How about Sizzle and Peppy (two fast selector engines) that was released? Or how a couple JS frameworks were implementing Sizzle and the MooTools dev team decided not to follow suit?

Now, have you heard of Sly, the new selector engine on the block? No? That\’s because Harald Kirschner just released it yesterday, 03/25/09, and I can\’t tell you how awesome it is.. or can I?

I\’ll start you off with a brief description… and graphs! Continue reading Sly, New Selector Engine & How to Use in MooTools

Implement Other Selector Engines (e.g. Sizzle or Peppy) into MooTools?

Not too long ago announcements of two new selector engines came on the scene, Peppy by James Donaghue and Sizzle by John Resig. At the time I had a fleeting thought of how cool it would be if MooTools was as fast or faster than Peppy and Sizzle.

Yesterday, Ajaxian tells us that the Dojo Community will vote on whether they implement the Sizzle selector engine instead of using their own.

Just after reading that I thought whether MooTools would benefit from implementing a selector engine instead of using their own. Apparently I was not alone in this thought as Aaron Newton has posted his thoughts and pros/cons. Here\’s my two cents. Continue reading Implement Other Selector Engines (e.g. Sizzle or Peppy) into MooTools?