- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:25:38 -0800
On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:09 AM, Aaron Leventhal wrote: > How about node.getElementByIdInSubtree? In other cases where a getElement[s]By method is available on both Document and other nodes, it has the same name in both cases (getElementsByTagName, getElementsByClassName). Regards, Maciej > > > On 12/2/2008 4:07 PM, timeless wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Aaron >> Leventhal<aaronlev at moonset.net> wrote: >> >>> Maybe there is a deeper problem if copy& paste doesn't work right >>> because >>> of IDs? >>> >>> Or maybe there should be a node.getDescendantById() method? >>> >> >> maybe, but not with that name. >> >> Results 1 - 10 of about 4,480,000 for Descendent [definition]. >> (0.22 seconds) >> Results 1 - 10 of about 8,370,000 for Descendant [definition]. >> (0.41 seconds) >> >> the wikipedia links are confusing enough >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descendant links to: >> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendent >> which has an also link to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendant >> which has a 'US' audio file >> >> So the web says that '-dant' is favored 2:1 over '-dent', which is a >> fairly bad margin considering the spelling errors we've seen in >> html/http. >> >> I'd sooner see Node.getElementById and risk the confusion of it >> returning fewer nodes than Document.getElementById. >> >> >> > >
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