- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:36:51 -0700
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- CC: Webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>, Web APIs WG <public-webapi@w3.org>, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
Sounds good to me. / Jonas Doug Schepers wrote: > Hi, Jonas, Daniel- > > Jonas Sicking wrote (on 6/23/08 2:03 PM): >> >> What about the issue I raised here: >> >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2008AprJun/0214.html >> >> Which no one replied to. >> >> If you implement the HTML DOM you should already have code that not >> only filters out elements, but even filters out elements of a specific >> name. Seems like that code should be reusable? > > For an HTML UA, yes, that makes perfect sense. But there is concept of > that in SVG, for example, so for an SVG-only UA that would still be an > additional implementation (and memory) cost. > > I intend to make a make a separate spec that also provides a nodelist > for Element nodes, so we won't be losing the nodelist feature, just > deferring it (and not for long, at that). Those UAs which want to > implement both Element Traversal and Element Nodelist can do so; those > that don't yet aren't burdened with implementing Element Nodelist > (though as devices mature, I'm sure they'll want to do both). > > The other issue at stake here is the coordination between W3C and JSRs. > While this doesn't have a direct impact on desktop browser vendors, it > does affect the current mobile Web sphere, where Java is widely > deployed. The better aligned the JSRs can be to core W3C technologies, > the more robust the entire Open Web Stack is for content developers and > users. This is important enough that it is worth a small amount of > extra standardization effort to facilitate that. > > I will create an Element Nodelist specification right away, and if it is > approved to go forward (and I don't see why it wouldn't be, since there > is considerable support), I am confident that this would not slow down > deployment in desktop browsers, and so authors should be able to use it > in the same timeframe as Element Traversal. I hope this resolves your > issue satisfactorily. > > Regards- > -Doug Schepers > W3C Team Contact, WebApps, SVG, and CDF
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