On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:59:14 +0530, Martijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 2/7/07, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is there a major benefit to having a single method that outweighs the
>> performance considerations? I think we should have a better reason for
>> deciding this than "we feel like it".
>
> I don't see why a getElementBySelector is necessary when there is
> alreay getElementById, which one should use if performance is an
> issue.
Because when you can do getElementBySelector('#foo,#bar,.baz') to pick the
first
one of these that appears, or getElementBySelector('body span *'), or
something,
you can't use gEBID ...
cheers
Chaals
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