Oskar Krawczyk – blog.olicio.us

The time to get a new iteration of MooTools couldn’t get here any sooner… No one knows exactly what will the new version bring and no dates are released to the public. One thing we do know is that the selector engine (the very base of every framework) will get updated.

Meantime, in the Selector Engine War, a new player called Sly got promoted to a Colonel rank. Sly is a child of Harald Kirschner (of FancyUpload fame).

The speed result tests are pretty impressive– it’s at least 4x faster than MooTools’ currently embedded selector engine and twice as fast as the base selector engine for the 1.3 release.

And as much as I’d like to see this being included inside MooTools 1.3, the chances for it, are pretty slim. But fear not! If somebody out there, would like to use Sly as the default selector engine in MooTools, here’s how:

Window.implement({
	$$: function(el){		
		return Sly.search(el);
	}
});

Include this snipplet before your code/class/whatever.