Re: name="" deprecated in XHTML from Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) on 2008-07-01 (www-html@w3.org from July 2008)

From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:15:33 +0100
To: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
CC: Sebastian Mendel <lists@sebastianmendel.de>, www-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <4869D995.7010607@Rhul.Ac.Uk>

Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:

> Note there is, more helpfully perhaps, a getElementsById method. 

If true, isn't that a very perverse choice of name ?

Surely there /can/ be only one element with a given ID,
in which case "getElementById" (no "s" at position 11)
would be a far more logical choice of name.

Philip TAYLOR

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