Monday, January 14th, 2008
Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline
Category: JavaScript
, CSS
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.
3.7 rating from 22 votes
How can this list exclude the fastest javascript CSS selector engine — base2?
@bcse, I’ve updated it to include base2.
I’ve hooked in the data to the simile Timeline widget, because I can’t so no to a rich interface.
Somehow the content of this post is gone now?
Wow, what a great post…. it’s completely empty…