8197 2009-11-05 12:55:04 +0000 This design might work for JavaScript, but it won't work well in static-typed languages like Java or C#. Instead of overridding "namedItem", a better design would be to add a new method called "allNamedItems" which always returns an HTMLCollection. "nam 2010-10-04 14:28:16 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#htmlallcollection-0 P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike mjs public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 29331 0 contributor 2009-11-05 12:55:04 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#htmlallcollection-0 Comment: This design might work for JavaScript, but it won't work well in static-typed languages like Java or C#. Instead of overridding "namedItem", a better design would be to add a new method called "allNamedItems" which always returns an HTMLCollection. "namedItem" returns only the first item. That way you always know what you're getting, and calling "namedItem" using even the HTMLCollection interface (which returns an Element) is guaranteed to work. Posted from: 72.38.162.215 30412 1 ian 2010-01-05 00:33:19 +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: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: Unfortunately we are constrained by legacy implementations. I would *strongly* recommend non-JS environments to simply not support any of these legacy interfaces at all. They're crazy. 30440 2 mjs 2010-01-05 05:42:25 +0000 I believe the breaking issue for static languages was fixed in bug 8092 in any case.