[Edbrowse-dev] startwindow / class NodeList

[Kevin Carhart <kevin@carhart.net>]

Hi guys

I was familiarizing myself with DOM discussions on the listserv over 
2014-15, so that I can hopefully contribute and be up to date on 
recent work when trying to figure out how.  I've installed from github, 
and have been taking a look at the startwindow.js.  Maybe I could help 
build out some pieces of DOM?

I noticed something in past DOM discussions on the list.  A while ago, 
Adam said, "Also, as per comments in startwindow.js, apparently we're 
supposed to return something called a node list object rather than an 
array from getElement* functions. No idea what one of these is yet, more 
future research I think."

You may know this already, but the env.js code has a specification for 
NodeList!  I put it up at:
http://carhart.net/~kevin/nodelist.js

Adam, you said you had taken a look at env.js, right?  I know it isn't 
suitable as an implementation out of the box, but do you think env is 
useable as a guide, for example if I was to try and adapt 
document.getElementsByTagName to return a NodeList?

I notice in the env code that they cite URLs from w3, which makes me 
hopeful that they have done good generic work that just happens to be in 
javascript.  Here's what they have to say about document and about the 
'Node' class,
http://carhart.net/~kevin/document.js
http://carhart.net/~kevin/node.js

thanks!
Kevin

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