Re: QSA, the problem with ":scope", and naming

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote:
> On 2011-10-20 12:50, Alex Russell wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jonas Sicking<jonas@sicking.cc>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh, and as a separate issue. I think .findAll should return a plain
>>> old JS Array. Not a NodeList or any other type of host object.
>>
>> I strongly agree that it should be an Array *type*, but I think just
>> returning a plain Array is the wrong resolution to our NodeList
>> problem. WebIDL should specify that DOM List types *are* Array types.
>
> We need NodeList separate from Array where they are live lists.

No we don't. The fact that there's someone else who has a handle to
the list and can mutate it underneath you is a documentation issue,
not a question of type...unless the argument is that the slots should
be non-configurable, non-writable except by the browser that's also
holding a ref to it.

>  I forget
> the reason we originally opted for a static NodeList rather than Array when
> this issue was originally discussed a few years ago.

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