673790 - Remove childElementCount

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Anne (:annevk)]

Remove childElementCount as it is redundant with children.length.

If this is done I can remove it from DOM Core which would be nice.

Comment 1

[Anne (:annevk)]

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65079

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

It is quite strange to remove something which was implemented and specified (even Rec level) just couple of years ago.

I don't recall why Element Traversal didn't include .children

Comment 3

[Anne (:annevk)]

It seems better than removing it a decade from now as we try to do with other badly designed features.

Comment 4

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

I'd be ok with attempting to remove it. And I definitely agree, it's better to remove something early if it's a bad feature (which I think is the case here), rather than wait and try to remove it later.

Comment 5

[Anne (:annevk)]

Ping?

Comment 6

[Anne (:annevk)]

Failed :-(

Comment 7

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

This page does not say anymore that this is going to be removed.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Element.childElementCount