[whatwg] document.head

• From: Joseph Pecoraro <joepeck02@gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:20:07 -0400
• Message-ID: <D9EF6FAE-57E9-4AF3-B82A-2CDFDC569D0E@gmail.com>

On Sep 20, 2009, at 4: 24PM, Juriy Zaytsev wrote:
> Speaking of `document.head`, I think Mootools does exactly that.


Good thinking.  I took a look at some JavaScript Libraries /  
Frameworks.  Here are some quick counts of how many times I could see  
that they use the "getElementsByTagName" method of getting the "head"  
element:

   - MooTools 1.2.3 has: 2
   - jQuery 1.3.2 has: 2
   - Ext 3.0.0 has: 5
   - YUI 3.0.0b1 has: >10
   - Prototype 1.6.1, MochiKit 1.4.2, Dojo 1.3.2 have: 0

I am not making any criticism of the libraries.  I'm just re-enforcing  
the fact that it is a popular method of getting the "head" element,  
and adding document.head would be a worthwhile improvement.

- Joe

Received on Sunday, 20 September 2009 14:20:07 UTC