I think so, too. The "on" alias is great, so it might as well create an alias like "qsa", "query", or "find" on Node, that searches within its children, and on

I think so, too. The "on" alias is great, so it might as well create an alias like "qsa", "query", or "find" on Node, that searches within its children, and on window, that searches within the whole document. I wonder, why that is not done more, after all it is one of the benefits of prototype based inheritance, that you do not have to subclass to change the interface.