- From: Dean Edwards <dean@edwards.name>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:40:27 +0100
Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Dean Edwards wrote:
>> Personally, I prefer a comma delimited list. Passing an array seems
>> yukky.
>
> Really? I always thought the comma-separated argument to window.open() was
> one of the ugliest APIs ever...
>
This isn't the same thing. We are faking varargs so whatever we do is
going to look a bit ugly. Nine times out of ten this method will be
called with one argument:
var menus = document.getElementsByClassName("menu");
That is much more intuitive for the most common case.
>
>> Are there any problems with passing a JavaScript array to a DOM method?
>> Does it cast to a DOMArray or something? What about other platforms?
>
> It's an array. Most languages support arrays. Why would there be a
> problem?
>
Just checking. ;-)
-dean
Received on Monday, 23 October 2006 18:40:27 UTC