Re: [selectors api] Why two methods?

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:03:35 -0500, Martijn <martijn.martijn@gmail.com>  
wrote:
> I don't see any difference:.
> document.getElementBySelector("html > p")
> is the same as document.getElementListBySelector("html > p")[0]
>
> document.getElementBySelector("html > p:not(:first-child)")
> is the same as document.getElementListBySelector("html >
> p:not(:first-child)")[0]
>
> document.getElementBySelector("html > p:last-child")
> is the same as document.getElementListBySelector("html >  
> p:last-child")[0]
>
> as far as I can see.

Given that the latter returns a StaticNodeList you can't do fancy stuff  
such as lazy evaluation. So they become different in terms of speed.


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