Re: childElements, childElementCount, and children (was: [ElementTraversal]: Feature string for DOMImplementation.hasFeature(feature, version)?) from Jonas Sicking on 2009-10-18 (public-webapps@w3.org from October to December 2009)

From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:14:02 -0700
To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <63df84f0910180414w2ac8dabcy481f447f001c1f11@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:
> So, rather than dwell on an admittedly imperfect spec, I personally suggest
> that we urge WebKit developers to implement .children and .children.length,
> in the anticipation that this will be in a future spec but can be useful to
> authors today.

They already do. Which casts some amount of doubt on Maciejs argument
that it was too performance heavy to implement in WebKit. :)

/ Jonas

p.s. It also works in Opera and IE.

Received on Sunday, 18 October 2009 11:14:55 UTC