Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Adding methods like getElementById and getElementsByTagName to DocumentFragments from Domenic Denicola on 2013-10-10 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from October 2013)

From: Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 22:45:02 +0000
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Message-ID: <B4AE8F4E86E26C47AC407D49872F6F9F9B272F61@BY2PRD0510MB354.namprd05.prod.outlook.>

From: whatwg-bounces@lists.whatwg.org [mailto:whatwg-bounces@lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Ian Hickson

> I feel this is a case where we're not putting authors first, but are instead putting spec purity first.

In terms of not speccing getElementById etc., I see what you mean. But I do want to point out that adding CSS.escape has made a certain class of authors very happy, namely library authors. So both approaches are good ones.

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