- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:59:30 +0100
- To: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:56:28 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: > * Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> I'm not an Opera developer, but I'm wondering why getAttribute is >> obsolete. I'd also rather have them consistently implemented. > > Using getAttribute and most other namespace-unaware methods makes your > scripts less robust; while many implementations consider getAttribute(x) > to mean getAttributeNS(null, x), this is not guranteed, so if the script > depends on this assumption, it might break at some point in some user > agent. Indeed, I noticed this too. I believe the same is true for createElement(). These are also cases worthy of clarification imho. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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