Re: childElements, childElementCount, and children (was: [ElementTraversal]: Feature string for DOMImplementation.hasFeature(feature, version)?) from John Resig on 2009-10-18 (public-webapps@w3.org from October to December 2009)

From: John Resig <jeresig@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:50:53 -0400
To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Cc: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <730bab940910181050j4e37669eyb639646e1d0df593@mail.gmail.com>

> They already do. Which casts some amount of doubt on Maciejs argument
> that it was too performance heavy to implement in WebKit. :)
>
> / Jonas
>
> p.s. It also works in Opera and IE.

Yeah, .children is already the de facto standard here - implemented in
every major browser. It's a real shame that it hasn't (and won't?)
make it in to a spec, especially considering that it's already
implemented everywhere.

--John

Received on Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:51:47 UTC