[whatwg] Unifying DOMTokenList with DOM 3 Core's DOMStringList?
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Mon Jun 15 12:26:25 PDT 2009
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Adam Roben wrote:
>
> DOM 3 Core defines the DOMStringList interface [1], which has some
> similarities to HTML 5's DOMTokenList interface. In fact, DOMStringList
> basically provides a subset of DOMTokenList's functionality. But there
> is a mismatch in the names of the DOMTokenList.has and
> DOMTokenList.contains methods (which seem to have the same purpose).
>
> I think DOMTokenList.has should be renamed to DOMTokenList.contains, to
> match DOMStringList.
Done.
> Perhaps some relationship between these two interfaces should be defined
> as well (though that would obviously introduce a dependency on DOM 3
> Core).
It didn't seem especially useful to make one inherit from the other, so I
haven't done that. Not sure what other relationship would help.
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