Why one should prefer using CSS over XPath in IE?

Question

I am working on an application which is compatible only with IE7 and IE8. I didn\'t know why but some suggested to use CSS over XPath while identifying the elements in IE. W

Answer 1

Brevity and Clarity are other reasons, in addition to speed.

In addition to speed, I find that css is usually shorter and cleaner and easier to read. For example:

xpath:

 //ol[@class='choice-group'//li//label//input

vs

css:

 css=ol.choices-group li label input