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; Gecko
does not. I was wondering whether any of the Webkit or Opera folks
could comment on _why_ they implement this? I haven't seen any uses
of this in the wild (outside document.all.tags, but document.all
doesn't behave like a normal HTMLCollection in all sorts of other
ways either).
I'd rather be specifying (and implementing) a smaller DOM API, if
that's all that's needed for actual web compat....
Support for HTMLCollection.tags() in WebKit predates the fork from
KHTML. So we don't know why it was originally added.
Regards,
Maciej
