- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:56:16 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Joe D Williams <joedwil@earthlink.net>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Joe D Williams wrote: > > 3.2.4 DOM tree accessors > ... > document.embeds > document.plugins > "The embeds attribute must return an HTMLCollection rooted at the Document > node, whose filter matches only embed elements." > "The plugins attribute must return the same object as that returned by the > embeds attribute." > > This list of accessors should be expanded to include other similar reasonable > named collections. > Collections for <object>, <iframe>, <video>, <audio>, and other active items > are of similar interest and utility. These collections are a holdover from a world without getElementsByTagName(). Today, I would recommend just using those. On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Joe D Williams wrote: > > OK, let's move a selected DOM0 legacy subset like .embeds and .plugins > (along with <embed>) to 12:) Well, they still work. No need to tell people off for using them. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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