- From: Juriy Zaytsev <kangax.dev@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:26:52 -0400
On Sep 20, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Joseph Pecoraro wrote: > 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 There are none in Prototype.js simply because it is a rather small and low level library (I'm one of its core developers, btw). Libraries that use, say, "global eval" abstraction and/or dependency management (for scripts and styles) such as YUI obviously use HEAD more often (which your numbers confirm). [...]
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