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Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn schrieb:

> Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> 
>> Alternatively, you can retrieve all select elements with
>> Element.getElementsByTagName("select").
> 
> You are writing interface names as if they would refer to objects.  This is 
> confusing, and wrong if taken verbatim, because in recent DOM 
> implementations those names can and do refer to objects, but not to objects 
> that implement the interface, but objects that provide access to its 
> features via the prototype chain.  Unfortunately, this mistake of 
> oversimplification is perpetuated by references such as MDN.

Yes, you're right.  I have considered to write
Element.prototype.getElementsByTagName() instead, but that may not be
correct either – with host objects "you never know".

> [I am writing Element::getElementsByTagName(…) when I am referring to the 
> abstract method of the interface, and element.getElementsByTagName(…) when I 
> am referring to the implemented method of the element object referred to by 
> “element” instead.]

That seems to be reasonable, and I tend to follow this convention
prospectively, even though it seems to be rather uncommon for ECMAScript
and as such potentially confusing for readers.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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Retrieve a select from a table cell "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-14 14:24 +0200
  Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-07-14 14:45 +0200
    Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-14 16:54 +0200
      Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-07-14 23:20 +0200
    Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-15 09:11 +0200
  Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-14 21:36 +0200
    Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-14 21:41 +0200
    Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-15 09:10 +0200
      Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-15 09:46 +0200
        Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-07-15 10:03 +0200
          Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2015-07-15 06:33 -0700
        Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-15 10:17 +0200
          Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-15 11:47 +0200
            Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-15 13:11 +0200
              Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-18 18:04 +0200
  Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-07-14 16:44 -0300
    Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-07-14 17:03 -0300
      Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-14 22:07 +0200
        Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-07-14 17:28 -0300
          Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-15 00:23 +0200
    Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-14 22:02 +0200

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