- From: Andy Earnshaw <andy@intelligroup.eu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:13:31 -0000
- To: <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: <www-dom@w3.org>
I like the idea, but the first problem that springs to mind is that we're
increasing the number of potential collisions that can be caused by the way
certain elements are registered as named properties on others:
<form id="myform">
<button name="remove">Remove</button>
</form>
document.getElementById("myform").remove(); //<-- Error in several
browsers!
This problem already exists with element methods that have short names, like
`submit`, and I fear that by adding more short names like `remove`,
`append`, etc, we're just increasing the potential for people to run into
this problem. Of course, if browsers remove this silly behaviour and just
use the `.elements` collection, then it wouldn't be a problem at all.
Received on Monday, 21 November 2011 07:49:37 UTC