[Feature] Removal of .$ functions

[thernstig]

I've always found the page.$, page.$$ (and their eval and frame etc. counterparts) weird as function names. Mainly for the fact that $ really is no English word giving any information as to what they do. I believe this might come from jQuery, but I have no idea why Playwright would need to follow that style.

Now that e.g. page.waitForSelector() exists, is there e.g. any need at all for page.$? I realize there is no equivalent for page.$$ (and maybe the evals, although element.innerHtml() etc. now exists that can be done outside of an eval.)

[pavelfeldman]

Your suggestion makes total sense, but it is too late for us to back from the beloved $. It does not wait for selector by the way, so if you know element it there, that's the fastest way of getting a hold of a handle...

[thernstig]

My reasoning was that since you are in beta, there wasn't any "too lates" yet 😄

Would adding documentation to the .$ and .$$ at least be good to mention they do not wait for selectors? Since most users will end up using the direct action commands and waitForSelector() (guessing here) - I'd say some users who never used Playwright (nor Puppeteer) would know the difference between e.g. page.$() and page.waitForSelector() by just reading the docs (if they are lucky they can guess).