- From: Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:16:14 -0500
HTMLCollection has a namedItem method that returns either null or one object. [1] HTMLAllCollection has a namedItem method that returns either null, one object, or a collection of objects. [2] I'm a Rails freak and one of the things that they do which I love is foo returns an item and foos returns a list of items. The unconscious benefit of this I believe is huge. My suggestion is to have namedItem always return either null or 1 object. And have namedItems always return a collection. We can debate whether it is better to return null or an empty collection. I prefer the latter myself. Then I can always feed it to an iterator. [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/urls.html#htmlcollection-0 [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/urls.html#htmlallcollection-0 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100403/98a18b1a/attachment.htm>
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