- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:45:12 -0400
- To: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>
- Cc: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, Tim Streater <tim@clothears.org.uk>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
On 10/22/13 2:42 PM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: > Because of HTMLCollection's name getter, all major browsers must be capable of a id+name lookup at every element (since Element has getElementsByTagName that returns a HTMLCollection). While true, in practice pretty much no one uses the name getter on that object, so nothing right now forces browsers to implement it in a particularly efficient (as opposed to simple) way. -Boris
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