DOMAssistant 2.7 released - better, faster, slimmer + new features!
The new version of DOMAssistant, 2.7, is finally out and my impression is that it is a very stable and solid release. Faster CSS selector performance, new features while at the same time a smaller file size.
New features
Unicode support added
We have added complete Unicode support, to have source documents in basically any language. Take a look at the Slickspeed Unicode test to see how it fares. A little hint: the DOMAssistant column is the one getting it right. 
Complete documentation in Chinese
I think it’s quite exciting that we can now offer our Chinese-speaking users a complete documentation in Chinese! And if anyone wonders, I have learned that while Cantonese and Mandarin is spoken differently from each other, the written language is the same.
New methods
A number of new useful methods have been added as well:
Vastly improved CSS selector performance
While we already had the overall fastest CSS selector performance with the 2.6 release, we have turned it up a notch; we were also haunted by not being the fastest JavaScript library in Internet Explorer. However, I have to say that the team really rose to the occasion, and now we have the fastest CSS selector performance in IE as well (results may vary… ).
Try the Slickspeed test to see the new results!
Fixes
Naturally we have also taken the time to fix or improve already existing functionality. Here’s a list of what we’ve done:
- Fixed so a function for an event, applied with addEvent, couldn’t be added multiple times.
- Fixed so a function in DOMReady couldn’t be applied multiple times.
- Accuracy fixes for XPath’s ends-with() implementation of E[att$=value].
- Accuracy fixes for nth-child selector.
- Accuracy fixes for ~ selector and contains in Internet Explorer.
- Fix for what’s allowed following a child/sibling combinator.
- Fix for attribute selector to support values that contain spaces.
- Fix for what’s returned from the prev and next methods, so it has the correct methods applied.
Try it out!
We think this is a great release, and naturally we think that you should download DOMAssistant and give it a go!
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