Robert Sayre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 12/20/06, Chris Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ? I never claimed there were technical problems with "matchAll" or >> "select" either - just that they didn't fit the pattern established by >> the other DOM Recommendation APIs, > >Web authors don't encounter a consistent pattern, and what is and >isn't a DOM Recommendation API is an artificial distinction that >doesn't matter to most of them, though interoperability does...
I disagree. Anyone who uses both getElementsByTagName and getElementByID encounters a pattern. >If the issue is only one of clarity and consistency, then I >heartily concur with Ian--that's what editors are for. How many web developers do you think read the entire spec rather than dive in looking for API calls? >> To become a Recommendation, it has to go through a lot more >> analysis by multiple parties and multiple implementations, etc > >Recommendations seem to vary widely in that regard. HA! Amen to that. -Chris
