Re: QSA, the problem with ":scope", and naming from Sean Hogan on 2011-10-20 (public-webapps@w3.org from October to December 2011)

From: Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:18:13 +1100
To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
CC: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com>, John Resig <jeresig@gmail.com>, Paul Irish <paulirish@google.com>, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Message-ID: <4EA01185.1000602@westnet.com.au>

On 20/10/11 10:49 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> On 2011-10-20 13:35, Sean Hogan wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone is relying on querySelectorAll() returning a
>> StaticNodeList?
>
> Only if there are people out there using list.item(n) instead of 
> list[n], or people extending the NodeList interface and expecting such 
> methods to be available on the result.  Though I suspect the former is 
> very rare, and the latter doesn't work in all browsers.
>

And I wonder if one of the browser vendors would be willing to silently 
change the behavior and see if they get any bug reports.

Received on Thursday, 20 October 2011 12:18:40 UTC