On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:09 AM, Aaron Leventhal wrote:
How about node.getElementByIdInSubtree?
In other cases where a getElement[s]By method is available on both
Document and other nodes, it has the same name in both cases
(getElementsByTagName, getElementsByClassName).
Regards,
Maciej
On 12/2/2008 4:07 PM, timeless wrote:
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Aaron
Leventhal<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maybe there is a deeper problem if copy& paste doesn't work right
because
of IDs?
Or maybe there should be a node.getDescendantById() method?
maybe, but not with that name.
Results 1 - 10 of about 4,480,000 for Descendent [definition].
(0.22 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 8,370,000 for Descendant [definition].
(0.41 seconds)
the wikipedia links are confusing enough
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descendant links to:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendent
which has an also link to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendant
which has a 'US' audio file
So the web says that '-dant' is favored 2:1 over '-dent', which is a
fairly bad margin considering the spelling errors we've seen in
html/http.
I'd sooner see Node.getElementById and risk the confusion of it
returning fewer nodes than Document.getElementById.
