- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:40:07 +0200
- To: "John J Barton" <johnjbarton@johnjbarton.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:51:33 +0200, John J Barton <johnjbarton@johnjbarton.com> wrote: > Yes and Firebug has to have special code for HTMLCollection because this > mistake > was made in the past. Now we will have to have different special code for > Storage. Rather than modeling new API on old mistakes, consider learning > from the past experience and take a direction that developers will find > less > confusing. Pseudo-arrays with "except... this and that" makes APIs > intricate and > puzzling. A simpler and less ambiguous approach would be better in my > opinion. Is there any type of object that holds a collection that does not use .length? Seems a bit weird to break consistency here in my opinion. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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