Re: "match a selectors string" in the DOM spec doesn't do what it wants to be doing

"Tab Atkins Jr." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dom.general
Message-ID <CAAWBYDCRyEnRc=uaPAjZ4F4wYX9U_Q01TvX8fX9J6U6epUU1vg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm not proposing getting rid of "evaluate a selector"; I'm proposing
>> explicitly exposing the lower-level "does this selector match this element"
>> primitive and using it directly in matches() and closest().
>
> Sounds good. Will add this once Tab provides the primitive.

I think this does what you want?
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors/#match-against-element

~TJ
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