----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexey Feldgendler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Fw: Lists, <ins>/<del>, and <a>
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:57:51 +0700, Andrew Fedoniouk
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Probably, lists should implement a special DOM interface which allows
to
iterate over the list items. Tables have such an interface.
Why not to implement just one simple function:
function foo(element) { ... }
...
someListElement.select( "li", foo);
-or-
someListElement.select( "li:not(li li)", foo);
instead of multiplying that interfaces?
This is guessing. Right now, it took you two attempts to construct a
selector which doesn't match too many or too little nodes. Note that
rules may change in the future. For example, there has been a proposal to
allow OL and UL as direct descendants of other OL or UL -- if this is
accepted, you'll need to update your selectors once again, making them
still more complex.
Agreed in general, "I wish you to live in an era of changes" is pretty old
Chinese damnation.
But it is at least not worse than difference in DOM interface
implementations in different UAs.
Less number of interfaces - stronger hope that they will be implemented
uniformely.
On the other hand, the list can be required to "know" what its items are.
I didn't get this one, sorry.
Andrew Fedoniouk.
http://terrainformatica.com
--
Alexey Feldgendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
