72 messages in org.w3.public-webapiRe: ACTION-87: Selectors API
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Subject:Re: ACTION-87: Selectors APIActions...
From:Ian Hickson (ia@hixie.ch)
Date:Mar 6, 2006 12:33:14 pm
List:org.w3.public-webapi

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Cameron McCormack wrote:

Ian Hickson:

* Having an interface doesn't imply behaviour -- e.g. NodeList doesn't imply that NodeList is live. You can have an object that implemnets NodeList and is not live.

Except that DOM 3 says:

The NodeList interface provides the abstraction of an ordered collection of nodes, without defining or constraining how this collection is implemented. NodeList objects in the DOM are live.

and I'd say that NodeList objects returned by a getElementsBySelector() would be "in the DOM".

The solution is just saying this is an exception to the general rule, not inventing a duplicate interface.

* I would recommend against supporting namespaces in the first version, for simplicity.

I think it is important for anything other than plain HTML, especially CDF, to support namespaces from the outset.

That isn't clear to me. In practice, namespaced selectors aren't used that much at all.

* I would recommend having getElementsBySelector and getElementsBySelectorNS if you wanted to support both, rather than using optional arguments. Some languages don't support method overloading on argument signatures and would need different numbers of arguments anyway.

What would happen if you called getElementsBySelector with a selector that included a namespace?

It would raise an exception, as the spec already says.

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