- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:11:34 -0700
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
Daniel Glazman wrote:
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
>
>> Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>>> We could also standardize the popular .getChildrenByTagName() method,
>>> that would give the similar
>>>
>>> myFooElement.getChildrenByTagName("*")[3]
>>
>> This seems like an excellent idea. To do in addition to the
>> ElementTraversal spec.
>
> I understand from Jonas's answer that he also never heard before
> of that "popular" getChildrenByTagName()...
I hadn't, but I wouldn't expect to either since I'm not looking at
toolkits that often.
But I was serious about thinking that adding the function seems like a
good idea. It's currently much too painful to navigate around in the DOM
so it's something we should try to fix.
/ Jonas
Received on Wednesday, 2 April 2008 12:12:46 UTC