- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:50:08 +1000
Jim Ley wrote: > On 9/5/05, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote: >>I may not be understanding what you mean, but if optional parameters >>aren't language independant, shouldn't it be defined in a more language >>independant way, so that any non-ECMAScript languages can still >>implement this? > > Yes, DOM currently is language agnostic, however the optional > className parameters aren't compatible with languages which can't do > that. So as defined now getElementsByClassName would not manage to do > that. In that case, should it be redefined as: NodeList getElementsByClassName(in DOMString classNames); where classNames is a string of space separated class names? That would be just as easy to implement and would work with languages that don't support optional parameters. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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