- From: Andrew M. Kuchling <akuchlin@cnri.reston.va.us>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 17:00:07 -0500 (EST)
- To: DOM List <www-dom@w3.org>
Stephen R. Savitzky writes:
>I would like to see a spec that, essentially, parametrizes these
>presumptions in order to permit a straightforward, efficient
>implementation.
Seconded; I agree with Stephen in thinking that the Level 1
spec nails down some behaviours that may be unintuitive in some
contexts, and complicate the implementator's job. I find the liveness
of getElementsByTagName to be the most annoying such case, since I
think of it as something like a query, and don't expect the query
results to magically be updated.
--
A.M. Kuchling http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/
Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data,
divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die. It has to be killed.
-- Arthur Miller
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