Re: [whatwg] .tags()

2009-10-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: I've been meaning to send a formal email on this subject, and with the recent discussion going on over in the W3C webapps mailing list I figured now was a good time. I'd like to formally request that .tags() is removed from the HTMLCollection

Re: [whatwg] .tags()

2009-10-22 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: I've been meaning to send a formal email on this subject, and with the recent discussion going on over in the W3C webapps mailing list I figured now was a good time. I'd like to

[whatwg] .tags()

2009-10-19 Thread Jonas Sicking
Hi All, I've been meaning to send a formal email on this subject, and with the recent discussion going on over in the W3C webapps mailing list I figured now was a good time. I'd like to formally request that .tags() is removed from the HTMLCollection interface. Unless it can be shown that

Re: [whatwg] .tags()

2009-10-19 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 10/19/09 6:30 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: In particular I'm wondering what made other vendors decide to support this. I'd already asked this on this list, back in July. The relevant answers (from the [whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections thread): On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Maciej Stachowiak wrote

Re: [whatwg] .tags()

2009-10-19 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 10/19/09 6:30 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: In particular I'm wondering what made other vendors decide to support this. I'd already asked this on this list, back in July.  The relevant answers (from the [whatwg] .tags

Re: [whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

2009-08-24 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: I haven't removed HTMLCollection.tags yet, since it appears to be implemented by most browsers. If we can get Opera and WebKit to

Re: [whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

2009-08-14 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: I haven't removed HTMLCollection.tags yet, since it appears to be implemented by most browsers. If we can get Opera and WebKit to remove support, then I'll remove it from the spec. Given that we have some data indicating that .tags() is not

Re: [whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

2009-08-14 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: I haven't removed HTMLCollection.tags yet, since it appears to be implemented by most browsers. If we can get Opera and WebKit to remove support, then I'll remove it from the spec.

Re: [whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

2009-08-14 Thread Garrett Smith
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jonas Sickingjo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: I haven't removed HTMLCollection.tags yet, since it appears to be implemented by most browsers. If we can get

Re: [whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

2009-08-07 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Ian just pointed out to me that his current draft requires HTMLCollections to implement a tags() method (which seems to do a filter by tagName on the contents of the collection). As

Re: [whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

2009-07-28 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Ian just pointed out to me that his current draft requires HTMLCollections to implement a tags() method (which seems to do a filter by tagName on the contents of the collection). As far as I can tell, IE, Webkit, and Opera implement this; Gecko

Re: [whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

2009-07-24 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:56:15 +0200, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: From what I heard so far it is there because of document.all. If document.all does indeed need to return a separate object as HTML5 suggests we can probably remove it from HTMLCollection in

Re: [whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

2009-07-24 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Anne van Kesteren wrote: They are indeed distinct, but do share the same interface name in Opera the moment, as far as I can tell... Oh, the _name_ is shared in Gecko too. Just not anything else. ;) In any case, my point was that we'd be ok with removing the tags member from

Re: [whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

2009-07-23 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:58:30 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: I don't know of a reason it's needed for collections other than document.all. But it also doesn't seem harmful and I can't say definitively whether it helps anything. I wouldn't object to removing it from the

Re: [whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

2009-07-23 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Anne van Kesteren wrote: From what I heard so far it is there because of document.all. If document.all does indeed need to return a separate object as HTML5 suggests we can probably remove it from HTMLCollection in due course. Given that the namedItem behavior of document.all is different

[whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

2009-07-14 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Ian just pointed out to me that his current draft requires HTMLCollections to implement a tags() method (which seems to do a filter by tagName on the contents of the collection). As far as I can tell, IE, Webkit, and Opera implement this; Gecko does not. I was wondering whether any of the

Re: [whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

2009-07-14 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jul 13, 2009, at 11:55 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Ian just pointed out to me that his current draft requires HTMLCollections to implement a tags() method (which seems to do a filter by tagName on the contents of the collection). As far as I can tell, IE, Webkit, and Opera implement this;

Re: [whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

2009-07-14 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: Support for HTMLCollection.tags() in WebKit predates the fork from KHTML. So we don't know why it was originally added. I guess the other question is whether you feel it's worth keeping... -Boris

Re: [whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

2009-07-14 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jul 14, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Maciej Stachowiak wrote: Support for HTMLCollection.tags() in WebKit predates the fork from KHTML. So we don't know why it was originally added. I guess the other question is whether you feel it's worth keeping... I don't know of a reason