Why getLength instead of length?

[ckknight]

Especially given the terseness of other operations such as html or text, length fits into that paradigm, though of course fails it compared to getNode.

Also, it's what the property actually is in JavaScript. It just is accessed differently in JS than BS, so that can be abstracted away such that BS users don't have to care.

This is all highly subjective and I don't know if there's a standard in place for this yet.

[rhysforyou]

Definitely agree with this, I've changed it on master, so expect the change to show up in 0.2