- From: Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:00:48 +0000
- To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Tony Ross <tross@microsoft.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Sunday, October 18, 2009 8:53 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com> > wrote: > > On Saturday, October 17, 2009 11:34 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Tony Ross <tross@microsoft.com> > wrote: > >> > Another use case would be the ability to easily and > >> > efficiently select the list of all elements in the document that the > >> > library should act upon. > >> > > [snip] > >> > >> Not sure I understand the list-of-elements example. > > > > The scenario is that a library wants to process all elements in its > namespace. > > Why would it want to do so, though? What sort of work can be done > symmetrically on every element in a namespace? Wouldn't it be more > common to want to do particular types of work on particular elements > instead? For example, on page load a library needs to enumerate all the widgets on the page and set them up. Searching the whole document once for each element that the library supports is less efficient.
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