- From: Aaron Leventhal <aaronlev@moonset.net>
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:09:59 +0100
How about node.getElementByIdInSubtree? On 12/2/2008 4:07 PM, timeless wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Aaron Leventhal<aaronlev at moonset.net> wrote: > >> Maybe there is a deeper problem if copy& paste doesn't work right because >> of IDs? >> >> Or maybe there should be a node.getDescendantById() method? >> > > maybe, but not with that name. > > Results 1 - 10 of about 4,480,000 for Descendent [definition]. (0.22 seconds) > Results 1 - 10 of about 8,370,000 for Descendant [definition]. (0.41 seconds) > > the wikipedia links are confusing enough > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descendant links to: > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendent > which has an also link to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendant > which has a 'US' audio file > > So the web says that '-dant' is favored 2:1 over '-dent', which is a > fairly bad margin considering the spelling errors we've seen in > html/http. > > I'd sooner see Node.getElementById and risk the confusion of it > returning fewer nodes than Document.getElementById. > > >
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