[whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Thu Jul 23 19:56:15 PDT 2009


Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> From what I heard so far it is there because of document.all. If document.all does indeed need to return a separate object as HTML5 suggests we can probably remove it from HTMLCollection in due course.

Given that the namedItem behavior of document.all is different from the 
namedItem behavior of HTMLCollection, I don't see how document.all could 
possibly be a general HTMLCollection....

-Boris




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