[whatwg] Adding ECMAScript 5 array extras to HTMLCollection

[Geoffrey Sneddon]

On 26/04/10 19:50, And Clover wrote:
> David Flanagan wrote:
>
>> Rather that trying to make DOM collections feel like arrays, how about
>> just giving them a toArray() method?
>
> I like that, as a practical and explicit (JavaScript-specific) binding.
>
> In the longer term, what's the thinking on a more basic change:
>
> - Require specific DOM interfaces like NodeList, HTMLCollection, Element
> etc. to be available for prototype monkey-patching under their interface
> names as properties of `window`?
>
> Then we wouldn't have to worry about what Array-like methods need to be
> provided on HTMLCollection, because application and framework authors
> could choose whichever they liked to prototype in.
>
> IE8/Moz/Op/Saf/Chr already do this to a significant extent, but there's
> no standard that says they have to. It would allow DOM extension to be
> put on a much less shaky footing than the messy hack Prototype 1.x uses.
>
> Is this something that's a reasonable requirement for browsers in future?

HTML5 through WebIDL and its ECMAScript binding already does require this.

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