Today I’m releasing my first attempt at creating a “selector engine”; it’s called mini! I’m not sure if this really qualifies as a “selector engine” though; it does not entirely support any particular CSS specification; instead, I’ve built it to work with only the most commonly used selectors.
While the work done on engines such as Peppy, Sizzle and Sly (and others…) is commendable the CSS3-support aspect is totally lost on some users. Resig’s post on “Selectors that People Actually Use” attests to this.
mini has been built to support only the most frequently used CSS selectors. If you prefer CSS3-selector wizardry then you won’t like this, at all!
mini supports the following selectors (and variations):
div.examplebody divdiv, pdiv, p, .examplediv pdiv > pdiv.exampleul .example#titleh1#titlediv #titleul.foo > * span
Don’t try and do anything fancy with it! It doesn’t support pseudo-selectors, type selectors or any combinators (other than >).
The entire script weighs in at about 1.5kb (minified) and only 850 bytes (minified and gzipped). It’s quite fast too:
