- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:09:35 +1000
- To: "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>, "Web APIs WG" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:28:22 +1000, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> Given the input from Björn I suppose there's no real need for a method >> that returns a single element node (assuming implementations make that >> optimization). Given that, I propose we rename .getAll() to >> .getElementsBySelector() and drop .get() (on both Document and Element). > > I don't actually think it will be possible to make this optimization. In > the past we talked about mapping the StaticNodeList interface in the > ECMAScript bindings to a normal ECMA array. And possibly do the same > thing in other languages such as Java. This means that we can't use a > custom class that performs the lazy evaluation. > > Though looking at the latest version of the spec it looks like > StaticNodeList does not map to arrays, was that idea dropped or is it > just not in the spec yet? I dropped the idea for now until someone gets around to writing the ECMAScript DOM binding(s) specification. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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