[anderskaseorg]

You are misreading the documentation. There's no such distinction as live node vs. static node in that sense. There's only a distinction between a live node list and a static node list. This is a difference between getElementsByClassName("foo") and querySelectorAll(".foo"), but not between getElementById("foo") and querySelector("#foo").

The difference is whether membership changes in the collection are reflected immediately. Changes to the nodes themselves are reflected as usual either way, and node references do not spookily invalidate or repoint themselves.

[kasajian]

spookily?

[JoelEinbinder]

Its a reference to Einstein's spooky [action at a distance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_at_a_distance)