On Jun 1, 10:15 am, Dean Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/06/2011 00:53, RobG wrote:
>
> > On May 29, 3:14 pm, Andrew Dodson<[email protected]>  wrote:
> >> Isn't that what its supposed 
> >> tohttp://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-api/#nodeselector
>
> >> <http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-api/#nodeselector>Whats the difference in
> >> Chrome, FF? nodelist is non-live in all of them.
>
> > The authors of the selector API could have saved a bit of confusion by
> > giving their collection a name other than NodeList. In all DOM
> > specifications, NodeLists are live. Perhaps the object returned by the
> > selector API should have been called a StaticNodeList.
>
> It was originally called "StaticNodeList".

Snap!

> I don't know when it was
> changed. I guess the thinking was, that in terms of the methods they
> provide, they are identical. The only differences are internal.

To me the live/static thing is a bit more than internal. ;-)

Since "NodeList" doesn't hint that it's live, having StaticNodeList
might have helped in that regard too. Cest la vie.


--
Rob

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