not(*:first-child) query failing with selector=css3 (FF11/mac)

[bill]

See dojo/tests/query/query.html?selector=css3. This fails:

dojo.query("#t span.foo:not(span:first-child)")

This slightly simplified query also fails:

dojo.query(".foo:not(span:first-child)")

with [Exception... "An invalid or illegal string was specified" code: "12" nsresult: "0x8053000c (NS_ERROR_DOM_SYNTAX_ERR)" location: "​http://localhost/trunk/dojo/selector/lite.js Line: 72"] { constructor=DOMException, filename="​http://localhost/trunk/dojo/selector/lite.js", code=12, more...}

Seems like that's valid CSS3 syntax?

Test is in dojo/tests/query/query.html; when this is fixed move it to CSS3 section of the file instead of ACME section.

[bill]

In [27986]:

Make better tests for new dojo/query module, refs #12451, #14874, #14875, #14876, #14877, #14879, #14880.

[Kris Zyp]

It looks like Firefox does not support this query. The lite engine is explicitly designed to rely on the browsers' query engine for anything beyond basic CSS2.1 queries, so we can't do anything more than that what the browser offers (clearly we won't build a whole query engine to deal with this issue).

[bill]

There's no need to build a[nother] query engine when you already have acme and sizzle. But perhaps you meant that you don't want to add branching code to load acme for FF queries containing not(). So, I guess this should be marked as wontfix, or invalid if you document selector=css3 as not working for this case.

BTW I checked and the problem still occurs in the latest version of FF (version 22, mac).