Rails spinoffs - Apr 2006 - RE: document.getElementsByClassName (prototype) andElement.childrenWithClassName (scriptaculous) redundancy?

Isn''t the difference that the scriptaculous one only gets child nodes
from the node you specify, whereas the prototype one gets all in the
entire document?

Still, it would be nice to just have the one, and let you pass in the
document element if you wanted all of them.

Just guessing, really.  I haven''t looked at the code in question.

Greg
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> andElement.childrenWithClassName (scriptaculous) redundancy?
> 
> On Monday 17 April 2006 11:24, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
> > Is there a reason scriptaculous provides what appears to be a
redundant
> > function?  The reason I''m asking is that it only seems to be
used
twice
> > throughout all of scriptaculous, and it doesn''t appear to
work
properly
> > (for some reason it''s returning the actual element, rather
than an
array
> > with all of the elements)
> 
> actually, it is working properly, the function that is calling it is
> simply
> interpreting the results incorrectly :)
> 
> However, there''s still that redundancy.  I''ve filed a
ticket about
this
> here:
> http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/4766
> 
> any input would be greatly appreciated :)
> 
> -Jeremy
> 
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On 4/17/06, Gregory Hill <Gregory_Hill-l9nu40+TWxQ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Isn''t the difference that the scriptaculous one only gets child
nodes
> from the node you specify, whereas the prototype one gets all in the
> entire document?
Prototype''s document.getElementsByClassName allows you to pass in the
parentElement as the second parameter.

Todd

On Monday 17 April 2006 12:37, Gregory Hill wrote:
> Isn''t the difference that the scriptaculous one only gets child
nodes
> from the node you specify, whereas the prototype one gets all in the
> entire document?
the prototype one allows you to pass in an element to start with:
document.getElementsByClassName(''foo'',
''bar'');
will return all of the elements descending from the element with the id of 
bar.

-Jeremy

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  -- The Word of Bob.

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