Moving to [email protected] 

I don't think we are tied to a particular name for this, I think 
getElementsByGroupOfSelectors might be a little excessive :) However we'd just 
like the name to more clearly reflect the functionality rather than a generic 
sounding matchAll() which isn't really intended for generic use. It's our 
belief that it is important for names to reflect what they do where possible. 
Having a short name might save us all a few keystrokes but it is less clear to 
developers what the call is doing and can create bigger problems.

For examples sorry I meant staticNodeList. We have an example of it being 
returned in the spec but I don't see an example of it being accessed. We'd just 
like to be clear on how it is used.

Thanks
-Dave 


-----Original Message-----
From: Anne van Kesteren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:44 AM
To: Dave Massy; Charles McCathieNevile; Web API WG
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Selectors API

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:39:24 +0100, Dave Massy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:38:59 +0100, Dave Massy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:
> We're concerned that such a generic name implies other things and in our  
> experience a specific name even if it is longer is better for  
> developers. Can we make this feel more in line with the DOM API?

So you're proposing we instead use:

   getElementByGroupOfSelectors()
   getElementsByGroupOfSelectors()

? I don't like that at all.


> It's not clear how the static Selector object works out in Javascript  
> code. Can we put together an example?

The specification is full of examples. What do you mean exactly? I think  
the "Selector" object is such is only relevant when you try to do  
Selector.prototype or something...


By the way, it would be much better if this was discussed on  
[email protected] so developers following that list can give input as  
well.


-- 
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>

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