8037 2009-10-23 22:45:40 +0000 The form controls collection should just be an HTMLCollection instead of having an HTMLFormControlsCollection interface 2010-10-04 14:48:11 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified PC All CLOSED FIXED NE P2 normal --- 1 mjs ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 28911 0 mjs 2009-10-23 22:45:40 +0000 In browsers that expose global interface objects, the form control collections either are or inherit from HTMLCollection, thus allowing changes to HTMLCollection.prototype to affect them. In HTML5, it does not inherit, so it will not be affected by HTMLCollection.prototype changes. This seems like a needless change in behavior. If HTMLCollection.namedItem is changed to return "object" instead of "Element" as suggested in related bugs, then having a special interface for form control collections will add very little value (just making the return type of the "item" method a little more specific). Thus, I don't think it's worthwhile having a special interface for it at all. But at the very least it should inherit. 28912 1 mjs 2009-10-23 22:45:57 +0000 See also bug 8035. 28960 2 ian 2009-10-25 06:01:35 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Partially Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Done, except I made HTMLFormControlsCollection be its own interface and put namedItem() on both interfaces so HTMLFormControlsCollection's namedItem() overrides HTMLCollection's. I think we will probably need to add more members to HTMLFormControlsCollection in time, because IIRC IE implements form.elements as just an alias for form, and thus there are probably pages depending on form.elements.foo where foo is something on HTMLFormElement (the same problem we have with HTMLOptionsCollection). 28963 3 ian 2009-10-25 06:04:00 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r4323. Check-in comment: Make collections inherit from HTMLCollection http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4322&to=4323