On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:45:12 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 10/22/13 2:42 PM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: >> Because of HTMLCollection's name getter, all major browsers must be >> capable of a id+name lookup at every element (since Element has >> getElementsByTagName that returns a HTMLCollection). > > While true, in practice pretty much no one uses the name getter on that > object, so nothing right now forces browsers to implement it in a > particularly efficient (as opposed to simple) way. Or maybe we could remove the name lookup thing altogether for Element.getElementsByTagName et al? -- Simon Pieters Opera SoftwareReceived on Wednesday, 23 October 2013 08:39:30 UTC
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