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Re: [DOM4] NodeList should be deprecated

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:19:35 +1100
Message-ID: <4F63F4B7.6050704@mcc.id.au>
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
CC: Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>, Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com>, Adam Klein <adamk@chromium.org>, WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, Erik Arvidsson <arv@chromium.org>, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@chromium.org> 
Anne van Kesteren: > Okay, annotated NodeList with [ArrayClass]. What 
about HTMLCollection?
> Should I add it there too? Could you take a look at NodeList and
> HTMLCollection for accuracy?

It is probably not feasible to add to HTMLCollection, because it has a 
named property getter which is not [OverrideBuiltins].  That means that 
all the new properties on the prototype like "concat", "push", etc. 
would begin to shadow any named elements on the collection.
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