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by 1123581321 1313 days ago
What’s holding up the Firefox implementation? Parent select is one feature that xpath would’ve provided earlier than the adopted selector spec. Glad to see it coming over.
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caniuse says that Firefox supports it but not by default -- it can be enabled via a flag. I guess they don't have confidence yet to turn it on by default.
they have an experimental implementation but it is not stable according to them. You can read more about it here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418039