Issue 167 repeater inputs

[esprehn]

Known issue:

Bindings on the element (that are not a descendent) are not matched by binding(). This is possible, but requires a bunch of jQuery work that would probably be a little slow. How important is that feature?

[esprehn]

I discussed this with Igor and we think maybe we should hold off on this change and go a different route (closer to Shyam's original proposal).

Propposed Change: Support binding and attribute selection in jQuery expressions:

We need to decide on the syntax. Technically XPath would solve all these issues, but jQuery dropped support for XPath a long time ago. Maybe:
repeater('...').row(0, ['a.productLink -> @href', '{{productName}}'])
and we remove binding() and people just use
element('{{binding}}').html() // get the binding value
or
element('a [href*={{username}}] -> @href').text() // get the attribute value

What do you think? Should we go forward with this change? Should we extend the jQuery syntax? I'm not a huge fan of that since it diverges so badly from CSS3 syntax, but it does solve the issue of how repeater().row() works. Often you want to select a bunch of things that are not really bindings from a repeater too.

[IgorMinar]

I'm not keen on the diversion from the css3 syntax, but I think this proposal is the best we have so far. Misko?

[btford]

This looks stale; can we close it?

[mhevery]

closed