- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:11:02 -0700
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > Call 10 times getElementsByName() and you will have 10 dangling lists > that need to be handled on pretty much each DOM structure update (until > GC will occur). I see nothing in the spec that requires that each call return a new object (or heck, even if it did they could share the underlying updatable objects). Some UAs in fact do not create a new object for every call in those circumstances. > Of course caching and lazy evaluation tricks can be used for > native implementation of document|element.getElementsByClassName() & Co. Yep. > And yet... Seems like no one need those NodeLists to be alive. > I've never seen requests or even intimations on such requests to > see them alive. Thus is the question: why? for what purpose? To be compatible with the DOM Core specification and DOM HTML specifications. In fact, all HTML5 defines is what "tagname" means for getElementsByTagName on HTML nodes and what "name" means in HTML. The rest of the behavior is specified by the existing DOM specifications. -Boris
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