[whatwg] document.head

Yehuda Katz wycats at gmail.com
Sun Sep 20 14:26:17 PDT 2009


Yep! So what's the reason not to do it ;)
-- Yehuda

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Joseph Pecoraro <joepeck02 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sep 20, 2009, at 4: 24PM, Juriy Zaytsev wrote:
>
>> Speaking of `document.head`, I think Mootools does exactly that.
>>
>
>
> Good thinking.  I took a look at some JavaScript Libraries / Frameworks.
>  Here are some quick counts of how many times I could see that they use the
> "getElementsByTagName" method of getting the "head" element:
>
>  - MooTools 1.2.3 has: 2
>  - jQuery 1.3.2 has: 2
>  - Ext 3.0.0 has: 5
>  - YUI 3.0.0b1 has: >10
>  - Prototype 1.6.1, MochiKit 1.4.2, Dojo 1.3.2 have: 0
>
> I am not making any criticism of the libraries.  I'm just re-enforcing the
> fact that it is a popular method of getting the "head" element, and adding
> document.head would be a worthwhile improvement.
>
> - Joe
>



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Yehuda Katz
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