Why can only forms be referenced by dot notation?

Question

It seems like a simple beginners question, but I\'m unable to find an answer anywhere.

Let\'s say I have this HTML:

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Answer 1

As designed by W3C.

There's really nothing to argue about. You can access the an HTMLCollection of all the forms on the page through document.forms, much like you can images with document.images, applets with document.applets, links with document.links and anchors with document.anchors.

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-1689064