On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:45:12 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
On 10/22/13 2:42 PM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
Because of HTMLCollection's name getter, all major browsers must be
capable of a id+name lookup at every element (since Element has
getElementsByTagName that returns a HTMLCollection).
While true, in practice pretty much no one uses the name getter on that
object, so nothing right now forces browsers to implement it in a
particularly efficient (as opposed to simple) way.
Or maybe we could remove the name lookup thing altogether for
Element.getElementsByTagName et al?
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Simon Pieters
Opera Software
