On 1/27/07, Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:04:52 -0500, David Håsäther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Yes, but grabbing the first node has its own method. Grabbing the second
or last does not. What I don't understand is _why_ there is a special
method for
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:03:35 -0500, Martijn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I don't see any difference:.
document.getElementBySelector(html p)
is the same as document.getElementListBySelector(html p)[0]
document.getElementBySelector(html p:not(:first-child))
is the same as
On 1/28/07, Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:03:35 -0500, Martijn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I don't see any difference:.
document.getElementBySelector(html p)
is the same as document.getElementListBySelector(html p)[0]
document.getElementBySelector(html
* Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:04:52 -0500, David Håsäther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Yes, but grabbing the first node has its own method. Grabbing the second
or last does not. What I don't understand is _why_ there is a special
method for grabbing the first node? I just
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:17:37 -0500, Martijn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Given that the latter returns a StaticNodeList you can't do fancy stuff
such as lazy evaluation. So they become different in terms of speed.
Well, typically the first thing I do is using a variable, like:
var
Why does the Selectors API define two methods for retrieving nodes?
I understand that there are speed gains by having a method that grabs
just the first node, but how often do you want to do that? Don't you
want to grab the second node as often? Or the last?
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David Håsäther
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:39:46 -0500, David Håsäther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Why does the Selectors API define two methods for retrieving nodes?
I understand that there are speed gains by having a method that grabs
just the first node, but how often do you want to do that? Don't you
want to
On 2007-01-25 20:42, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:39:46 -0500, David Håsäther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Why does the Selectors API define two methods for retrieving nodes?
I understand that there are speed gains by having a method that grabs
just the first node, but how
On 2007-01-25 20:53, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:48:35 -0500, David Håsäther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What I mean is, why does grabbing the first node deserve its own
method? Is that really a common thing to do, grabbing the first node?
More common than grabbing the second
