- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:04:08 -0800
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com>, Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen@wirfs-brock.com>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com> wrote: >> Right, but I'm saying: why create yet more "stuff" in the DOM? >> >> findAll will return a "NodeArray" while querySelectorAll and friends return static and live NodeLists? No thanks. > > I'm not sure what you would prefer. Make findAll return an Array? (We > miss out on a *lot* of cool and useful stuff we could do.) Make > findAll return immutable live NodeLists? (Ditto, but for different > reasons.) Change qSA to return a NodeArray or Array? (Would be nice, > but probably not doable for compat reasons.) Actually, if we add .item to NodeArray then it's entirely possible that we can make qSA return a NodeArray. I'm not entirely convinced that's worth it though. / Jonas
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