Re: [selectors-api] Names of querySelector() and querySelectorAll() methods from Gavin Kistner on 2008-11-19 (public-webapps@w3.org from October to December 2008)

From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@phrogz.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:57:01 -0700
To: Gavin Kistner <gavin@phrogz.net>
Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-Id: <2E18E524-2332-496E-96BD-A68CD1B941EC@phrogz.net>

On Nov 18, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Gavin Kistner wrote:
> I find these names rather cumbersome and not very self-explanatory.
>
> Though it may be far too late for this suggestion, I would suggest  
> that they should be something such as:
>
> findNode()/findNodes() or findNode()/findAllNodes()
> selectNode()/selectNodes() or selectNode()/selectAllNodes()
> findBySelector()/findAllBySelector()

Er, please replace all instances of Node with Element in the above.  
Dunno what I was smoking.

And 2 more:
elementFromSelector()/elementsFromSelector()

Received on Wednesday, 19 November 2008 05:57:37 UTC