{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/WebReflection/ie8/issues/22","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/WebReflection/ie8/issues/22/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/WebReflection/ie8/issues/22/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/WebReflection/ie8/issues/22/events","html_url":"https://github.com/WebReflection/ie8/issues/22","id":116858275,"number":22,"title":"getElementsByClassName","user":{"login":"alphanull","id":1438447,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1438447?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/alphanull","html_url":"https://github.com/alphanull","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alphanull/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alphanull/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alphanull/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alphanull/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alphanull/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alphanull/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alphanull/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alphanull/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alphanull/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/WebReflection/ie8/labels/invalid","name":"invalid","color":"e6e6e6"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/WebReflection/ie8/labels/question","name":"question","color":"cc317c"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/WebReflection/ie8/labels/wontfix","name":"wontfix","color":"ffffff"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":7,"created_at":"2015-11-13T21:42:45Z","updated_at":"2015-11-18T18:07:30Z","closed_at":"2015-11-16T10:18:06Z","body":"Would it make sense to add this?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/WebReflection/ie8/issues/comments/157804995","html_url":"https://github.com/WebReflection/ie8/issues/22#issuecomment-157804995","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/WebReflection/ie8/issues/22","id":157804995,"user":{"login":"WebReflection","id":85749,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/85749?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/WebReflection","html_url":"https://github.com/WebReflection","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WebReflection/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WebReflection/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WebReflection/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WebReflection/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WebReflection/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WebReflection/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WebReflection/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WebReflection/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WebReflection/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-18T18:07:30Z","updated_at":"2015-11-18T18:07:30Z","body":"I wrote it badly, let me rephrase : is the absence of\ngetElementsByClassName **really** a bottleneck for you? I'd love to see the\nrest of the code or a profiled snapshot. Microbenchmarks are not a valid\nsource of data. The whole picture is.\nOn Nov 18, 2015 5:54 PM, \"alphanull\" <notifications@github.com> wrote:\n\n> Yes, of course it can hurt performance, and it imho does not even have to\n> be *the* bottleneck. I mean, why should I use querySelector in the first\n> place when I know that using getElementsByClassName is from about 100x up\n> to 3000x(!) faster in a browser that natively supports it - and of course\n> thats the majority of them. It just hurts a bit to need additional measures\n> to cope with IE8, if a relatively simple shim would suffice, without\n> needing it to be 100% compliant.\n>\n> —\n> Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub\n> <https://github.com/WebReflection/ie8/issues/22#issuecomment-157800878>.\n>\n"}}