Why doesn't MSHTML for .Net have querySelector and querySelectorAll, or where are they?

Question

I want to use MSHTML [1] to access DOM in IE, but I have just found out that it lacks querySelector and querySelectorAll methods in HTML document classes, which will otherwi

Answer 1

Yesterday I notice the same problem, I found a solution.

The Next example code works for me:

Document.querySelectorAll("#navbar_search>a").item(0).click();

If i try to do "the same", but with this code, it fails:

HTMLDocument doc;
doc = ie.Document;
doc.querySelectorAll("#navbar_search>a").item(0).click();

I'm not a COM expert but I thing the first solution is a late binding (dependences are resolved at run-time), while the second solution is a compliler-time binding and it depends on a 'good' predefined libary and that's not the case with mshtml.