Among the many interesting things discussed in the interview with Sitepoint, John Resig again brought up a project titled Sizzle. No, he’s not talking about adding POW BANG SHAZAM to our web layouts; it’s an initiative to create standardized and easily-implemented CSS-based selectors for JavaScript.

Aside from its lightweight and extensible nature, jQuery’s ability to easily assign behaviors and attributes to custom-created arrays of elements without much hassle is one of its most appealing features. Using a similar scheme for other libraries, frameworks or even in stand-alone cases would not only simplify programming (goodbye document.getElementsByTagName “for” loops!) but would improve the language as a whole by making scripts more readable and accessible.