Re: ElementTraversal support in Firefox 3.1

On Aug 19, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I just landed support for ElementTraversal in firefox. This will be  
> available in tomorrow nightlies, as well as the upcoming Firefox 3.1  
> Alpha 2 release that should be out soon.
>
> On top of this we also implement a 'children' property which is an  
> NodeList of all child elements to allow children to be reached by  
> index, such as
>
> res = myElement.children[5];
>
> The reason we chose the name 'children' for this property is that  
> this is already available in IE, Safari and Opera (which makes me  
> wonder about the arguments about this being too complex to implement).

In WebKit, we have the 'children' property implemented only on  
HTMLElements and instead of returning a NodeList, it returns a  
HTMLCollection (which differs only slightly from NodeList's interface).

-Sam

Received on Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:44:51 UTC