dojo.query - optionally return results in correct DOM order

[mojowww]

I have heard we don't want to have the query return the elements in order of the DOM because it would be a big performance hit, which totally makes sense.

Would it be possible to have an optional parameter, or maybe an entirely new function in dojo that *would* return them in the right order?

Example implementations:

//overloaded the query method
dojo.guery(".foo", document, true); 

// new method
dojo.dom(".foo", document);

Note: I confirmed that the built in FF getElementsByClassName returns results in order.

[Les]

jQuery 1.3.2 forces document order for comma-separated queries:

​http://groups.google.com/group/sizzlejs/browse_thread/thread/44d2b3fd5d532b5b

[Chris Mitchell]

please review/triage

[ben hockey]

#8223 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[ben hockey]

Given that this has been bumped a number of times without any action, I'm going to close this ticket but would welcome any patches.