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Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Adding methods like getElementById and getElementsByTagName to DocumentFragments

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 01:48:00 -0400
Message-ID: <5271EF10.10508@mit.edu>
To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
Cc: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>, whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, Tim Streater <tim@clothears.org.uk>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 
On 10/23/13 4:39 AM, Simon Pieters wrote:
> Or maybe we could remove the name lookup thing altogether for
> Element.getElementsByTagName et al?

Hmm.  There are some compat worries here; do we have any indications 
that this name lookup is unused in the wild?

-Boris
Received on Thursday, 31 October 2013 05:48:38 UTC

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