- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:58:18 +0100
- To: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:37:51 +0100, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 11/23/10 12:20 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> My plan is to define Element.id, Element.className, Element.classList, >> and getElementsByClassName in DOM Core. And tie getElementById to >> Element.id somehow, tie Element.id to an attribute named "id", and >> Element.className to an attribute named "class". > > Why do we want to tie .className to a particular attribute name? I > agree it may not be that convenient for authors if a particular language > wants to use some other attr name for classes, but presumably they'd > have really good reasons for doing that if they do it at all? So that you do not need namespace knowledge. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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