- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:56:28 +0100
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
* 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. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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