Re: Selectors API naming

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:56:14 +0100, Doug Schepers <doug@schepers.cc> wrote:
>> These four methods all return a _live_ NodeList meaning that when  
>> something in the DOM is changed the variable that holds the NodeList is  
>> changed accordingly, if needed.
>
> document.getElementById() returns an element, not a nodeList [0].  It  
> doesn't seem that it's live.

Fair enough, the element returned is "live" though. (It's a direct  
reference to the one in the tree.)


> document.getElementBySelector() should return an element, not a nodeList  
> (live or static); it's like document.getElementById().

Yeah, matchSingle works like that already.


> [...]


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Received on Friday, 22 December 2006 14:39:27 UTC