- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:25:26 +0200
- To: Webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
- Cc: "Web APIs WG" <public-webapi@w3.org>
Followup to webapps group please (reply-to set for this mail)
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:56:22 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
> Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>> On Sat, 31 May 2008 01:05:44 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
>>> I wanted to implement the ElementTraversal spec for the next release
>>> of firefox (after FF3). However last I heard there was still an
>>> outstanding issue of if we wanted to have .childElementCount unsigned
>>> long or if we wanted a .childElements NodeList.
>> I guess Doug will pipe up soon, but as I understand things from him he
>> thinks it makes sense to leave the spec as is. Opera, Ikivo and
>> BitFlash are known to have implementations that are believed to be
>> conformant to the current spec.
...
> In mozilla we would actually even implement the .childElementCount
> property by keeping a hidden childNodes list internally. But that might
> be specific to the mozilla implementation.
Indeed, it seems from discussing it that it would. Checking back with the
implementor at Opera, we would prefer to leave the spec as it is for now,
and if necessary write another, even smaller spec that offered the node
list functionality if you really want it.
cheers
Chaals
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