[whatwg] .tags()

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 10/19/09 6:30 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> In particular I'm wondering what made other vendors decide to
> support this.

I'd already asked this on this list, back in July.  The relevant answers 
(from the "[whatwg] .tags on HTMLCollections" thread):

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>
>> Support for HTMLCollection.tags() in WebKit predates the fork from
>> KHTML. So we don't know why it was originally added.

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>
>> I don't know of a reason it's needed for collections other than
>> document.all. But it also doesn't seem harmful and I can't say
>> definitively whether it helps anything. I wouldn't object to
>> removing it from the spec, but we probably wouldn't remove it from
>> WebKit short of evidence that it's actually harmful.
>>
>> Perhaps Opera people can shed more light on the matter.

On Thu, 23 Jul 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.

-Boris