Re: [web-animations] AnimationTimeline comments

I guess I am thinking of this as being more of an intrinsic property, like
the children of a DOM node.  This is expected to change over time, but
semantically it always exists and is owned by a specific parent object.

If on the other hand the semantics are more like getElementsByTagName,
where ownership is spread out among many parents and the method is
performing a collection operation across them, then it makes more sense to
have an object-creator.  (It occurs to me that my objection about get*
creating new objects already has plenty of counter-examples in the DOM.)
 With these semantics having the list be live seems counter-intuitive and
possibly hard to implement - it becomes something like jQuery's "live"
event registration.

- Kris


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 5/19/14, 1:05 PM, Kristopher Giesing wrote:
>
>> Let me rephrase: it would make more sense to me to provide an
>> object-getter for this task than an object-creator
>>
>
> And this would then be a live object of some sort?
>
> -Boris
>