- From: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:50:05 -0800
- To: Robert Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
- CC: Martijn <martijn.martijn@gmail.com>, Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Dave Massy <dave.massy@microsoft.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
Robert Sayre [mailto:sayrer@gmail.com] wrote: >On 12/20/06, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com> wrote: >> ? I never claimed there were technical problems with "matchAll" or >> "select" either - just that they didn't fit the pattern established by >> the other DOM Recommendation APIs, > >Web authors don't encounter a consistent pattern, and what is and >isn't a DOM Recommendation API is an artificial distinction that >doesn't matter to most of them, though interoperability does... I disagree. Anyone who uses both getElementsByTagName and getElementByID encounters a pattern. >If the issue is only one of clarity and consistency, then I >heartily concur with Ian--that's what editors are for. How many web developers do you think read the entire spec rather than dive in looking for API calls? >> To become a Recommendation, it has to go through a lot more >> analysis by multiple parties and multiple implementations, etc > >Recommendations seem to vary widely in that regard. HA! Amen to that. -Chris
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