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72 messages in org.w3.public-webapiRe: ACTION-87: Selectors API| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Anne van Kesteren | Feb 25, 2006 9:11 am |  .htm |
| Daniel Schierbeck | Feb 25, 2006 10:18 am | |
| Daniel Schierbeck | Feb 25, 2006 10:23 am | |
| Bjoern Hoehrmann | Feb 25, 2006 10:43 am | |
| Daniel Schierbeck | Feb 25, 2006 11:28 am | |
| Jim Ley | Feb 25, 2006 11:47 am | |
| Ian Hickson | Feb 25, 2006 3:56 pm | |
| Cameron McCormack | Feb 25, 2006 4:46 pm | |
| Lachlan Hunt | Feb 25, 2006 4:58 pm | |
| Cameron McCormack | Feb 25, 2006 5:00 pm | |
| Daniel Schierbeck | Feb 25, 2006 5:24 pm | |
| Anne van Kesteren | Feb 26, 2006 2:21 am | |
| Cameron McCormack | Feb 26, 2006 2:32 am | |
| Cameron McCormack | Feb 26, 2006 1:03 pm | |
| Maciej Stachowiak | Feb 26, 2006 3:02 pm | |
| Jonas Sicking | Feb 28, 2006 1:57 pm | |
| Ian Hickson | Mar 6, 2006 12:33 pm | |
| Ian Hickson | Mar 6, 2006 12:35 pm | |
| Anne van Kesteren | Mar 22, 2006 2:30 am | |
| Anne van Kesteren | Mar 22, 2006 2:33 am | |
| Anne van Kesteren | Mar 22, 2006 2:34 am | |
| mozer | Mar 22, 2006 3:15 am | |
| Anne van Kesteren | Mar 22, 2006 3:58 am | |
| mozer | Mar 22, 2006 4:29 am | |
| Anne van Kesteren | Mar 22, 2006 4:36 am | |
| Jim Ley | Mar 22, 2006 5:43 am | |
| Anne van Kesteren | Mar 22, 2006 6:08 am | |
| Jim Ley | Mar 22, 2006 6:44 am | |
| Maciej Stachowiak | Mar 22, 2006 11:16 am | |
| Maciej Stachowiak | Mar 22, 2006 11:22 am | |
| Maciej Stachowiak | Mar 22, 2006 11:24 am | |
| Robin Berjon | Mar 22, 2006 2:01 pm | |
| Maciej Stachowiak | Mar 22, 2006 2:28 pm | |
| Ian Hickson | Mar 22, 2006 2:48 pm | |
| Ian Hickson | Mar 22, 2006 2:50 pm | |
| Maciej Stachowiak | Mar 22, 2006 3:20 pm | |
| Jim Ley | Mar 22, 2006 6:16 pm | |
| Jim Ley | Mar 22, 2006 6:24 pm | |
| Anne van Kesteren | Mar 23, 2006 4:27 am | |
| Ian Hickson | Mar 23, 2006 2:30 pm | |
| Anne van Kesteren | Mar 25, 2006 4:36 am | |
| Ian Hickson | Mar 27, 2006 3:13 pm | |
| Anne van Kesteren | Apr 3, 2006 5:45 am | |
| Anne van Kesteren | Apr 3, 2006 5:51 am | |
| liorean | May 12, 2006 8:49 pm | |
| Anne van Kesteren | May 13, 2006 4:15 am | |
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| Anne van Kesteren | May 13, 2006 12:26 pm | |
| liorean | May 13, 2006 2:39 pm | |
| Anne van Kesteren | May 14, 2006 7:20 am | |
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| Anne van Kesteren | May 15, 2006 3:15 am | |
| liorean | May 16, 2006 9:29 pm | |
| Anne van Kesteren | May 17, 2006 5:17 am | |
| Lachlan Hunt | May 17, 2006 6:19 am | |
| Anne van Kesteren | May 17, 2006 6:29 am | |
| Jim Ley | May 17, 2006 6:35 am | |
| Lachlan Hunt | May 17, 2006 7:02 am | |
| Robin Berjon | May 17, 2006 7:07 am | |
| Anne van Kesteren | May 18, 2006 12:45 am | |
| Jonas Sicking | May 30, 2006 3:11 pm | |
| Jonas Sicking | May 30, 2006 3:24 pm | |
| Jonas Sicking | May 30, 2006 3:41 pm | |
| Ian Hickson | May 30, 2006 3:55 pm | |
| Robin Berjon | May 30, 2006 4:14 pm | |
| Jonas Sicking | May 30, 2006 5:56 pm | |
| Anne van Kesteren | Jun 5, 2006 2:46 am | |
| Anne van Kesteren | Jun 5, 2006 2:49 am | |
| Jonas Sicking | Jun 5, 2006 12:30 pm | |
| Charles McCathieNevile | Jun 5, 2006 5:36 pm | |
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| Subject: | Re: ACTION-87: Selectors API | Actions... |
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| From: | Maciej Stachowiak (mj...@apple.com) | |
| Date: | Mar 22, 2006 11:22:33 am | |
| List: | org.w3.public-webapi | |
On Mar 22, 2006, at 6:45 AM, Jim Ley wrote:
"Anne van Kesteren" <ann...@opera.com>
Fair enough, here are the requirements for the name:
* short * simple
Why are these requirements for the name, no other DOM names are short and simple, they're clear and unambiguous,
And that's why so much code is done with DOM Level 0 instead, or makes up functions with names like "$". To make an API that is fun and easy to use (and yes, I think this is a requirement for APIs on the web) it's important for common operations to have simple names.
The reason is performance.
Then one 1 method with an optional limit is ,uch better, it optimises for all situations when the author knows how many they're interested in, rather than 1 special case. I don't see why the 1 case is that much more special than the N case - as I say gEBI meets most of the 1 cases.
It seems preferrable to have the single-item version be a shorter expression than the multi-match. I do think the 1 case is significantly different from the N case, because in the single-item case you won't loop, you will just want to do your processing directly.
Mainly these names say nothing about their inescapable link to Selectors, they should.
What would be the reason for that?
The understandability - if you're not going to link the names to the function, then .a() .b() etc. is the way to go, as it's very short, and very simple.
"match" strikes a good balance between brevity and clarity. It is common to speak of "matching a selector". Furthermore, the name "selectNodes" for a function that matches against an XPath expression seems accepted, even though it says nothing about XPath in the name.
Regards, Maciej