- From: Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:24:45 -0800
- To: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, Erik Arvidsson <arv@chromium.org>, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@chromium.org>
Received on Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:25:33 UTC
Dynamic NodeLists have a significant memory and performance cost. Static NodeLists are basically just under-powered arrays. We should just return Node arrays from any new APIs that return a list of Nodes. I'd like to see NodeList get similar treatment to hasFeature, i.e. a note that it not be used for new APIs and possibly even the explicitly list the APIs allowed to return them. I don't see the Dynamic/Static distinction in DOM4 or the HTML spec. Is this specified anywhere? For reference, this came up in WebKit with some new Regions APIs https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80638.
Received on Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:25:33 UTC