On 1/25/07, Jim Ley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"David Håsäther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 2007-01-25 20:42, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:39:46 -0500, David Håsäther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> Why does the Selectors API define two methods for retrieving nodes? >>> >>> I understand that there are speed gains by having a method that grabs >>> just the first node, but how often do you want to do that? Don't you >>> want to grab the second node as often? Or the last? >> >> How do you mean? > > Sorry for not being clear. > What I mean is, why does grabbing the first node deserve its own method? > Is that really a common thing to do, grabbing the first node? More common > than grabbing the second or last node for instance? I do agree with this, there seems to be very few use cases where just 1 is useful and the user is not going to be able to use .getElementById instead.
Yeah, I also think that defining a method that only grabs the first node is unnecessary. Regards, Martijn
