On Sep 17, 1:06 pm, Stephan Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think the main reason lt/gt were removed was "because you can do the > same thing with slice()". John Resig said in a post a week or so ago > that they were also removed because "they did only one thing, and > didn't do it terribly well" (or something to that effect). Fair > enough, but then i would prefer that x.lt(n) be kept and implemented > in terms of $( ":lt(n)",x), or vice versa. > > :)
I think it would be better if it worked a bit like how the format plugin does it (http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin- format/) or even better, the .NET way: var x = 2; var y = "span"; $(":filter({1}):gt({0})", x, y); // filter(span):gt(2)