On 28 Jun 2013 at 22:28, Zirak A <[email protected]> wrote:
> Because they may result in the same thing, but they have different semantic
> meanings. I want to get an element by its id, not run a CSS selector. I want
> to get elements by their tag names, not run a CSS selector.
Quite so.
> From: Tab Atkins Jr.
> Given that you have querySelector, why would you want the other
> functions? getElementById("foo") is just querySelector("#foo"),
> getElementsByTagName("foo") is just querySelectorAll("foo"), etc.
In addition it's hardly obvious that this is what you do.
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Cheers -- Tim
