Re: [Element Traversal LC] access to element by index

Daniel Glazman wrote:
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
>> Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>>> We could also standardize the popular .getChildrenByTagName() method,
>>> that would give the similar
>>>
>>>   myFooElement.getChildrenByTagName("*")[3]
>>
>> This seems like an excellent idea. To do in addition to the 
>> ElementTraversal spec.
> 
> I understand from Jonas's answer that he also never heard before
> of that "popular" getChildrenByTagName()...

I hadn't, but I wouldn't expect to either since I'm not looking at 
toolkits that often.

But I was serious about thinking that adding the function seems like a 
good idea. It's currently much too painful to navigate around in the DOM 
so it's something we should try to fix.

/ Jonas