Thomas DeWeese wrote:
Hi all,
This is a feature that has been in a specification and
implemented by viewers for over 4 years. I think deprecation
needs to be reserved for features that introduce real
technical issues, not things that someone finds to be a
minor nuisance to implement.
I guess that means you don't fall into the camp that believes the SVG
spec is too big and really needs to be simplified.
This is just silly, the code is
attached for Java, are we really concerned about 8 lines of
code?
Personally I don't care if this method only requires one line of code.
SVGSVGElement:getElementById is just one example of something that
*doesn't have a good enough reason to exist given the size of the spec*.
My main argument would be that the spec needs simplified for *content
authors*. Any benefits for implementers are of course a welcome bonus.
public Element getElementByID(String id) {
Element e = getOwnerDocument().getElementByID(id);
Node n = e;
while (n != null) {
if (n == this) return e;
n = n.getParentNode();
}
return null;
}
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
* Thomas DeWeese wrote:
Would it make sense to deprecate this method in future SVG versions?
Given that the implementation is really not that hard I would
argue against it.
From http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/47300 it would
seem that this method confuses authors to believe one can re-use IDs in
a document.
If you got rid of any feature that confused authors you wouldn't
be left with anything. And BTW the confusion on re-using ID's is
not limited to this method.
Maybe not, but removing it would help.
And http://www.w3.org/mid/41FD3969.2070508@xxxxxxx suggests
that it confuses implementers, too. Among the not really that hard to
implement features there seem to be more useful methods...
This is the message that started this thread, isn't that kind
of circular?
Why, aren't things in this thread admissable as evidence? :-) Anyway,
regardless, I would still argue that the main reason for deprecation
should be that the method isn't useful enough to warrant its continued
existance.
