On 04/28/2010 10:27 AM, David Bruant wrote:
When I started this thread, my point was to define a normalized way
(through ECMAScript binding) to add array extras to array-like objects
in the scope of HTML5 (HTMLCollection and inheriting interfaces).
I don't see any reason yet to try to find a solution to problems that
are in current web browsers.
Of course, if/when a proposal emerges from this thread and some user
agent accept to implement it, a workaround (probably, feature detection)
will have to be found to use the feature in user agents that implement
it and doing something equivalent in web browsers that don't.
To be clear the proposals in this thread are pure syntactic sugar; they
don't allow you do do anything that you can't already do like:
Array.prototype.whatever.call(html_collection, arg1, arg2, ...)
where "whatever" is the array method you are interested in.
Of course there is nothing wrong with making the syntax more natural if
it can be done in a suitably web-compatible way. However it seems more
sensible to do this at a lower level e.g. as part of Web DOM Core. Sadly
that spec is in need of an editor.
