Fwd: [dom] MutationObservers -- observing certain property changes

See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2013JulSep/thread.html#msg94,
several threads spawned about MutationObservers.

In the end people decided it was a wontfix
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23226 and all our hopes lie
in custom notifications + Object.observe


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:44 PM, M. Klehr <mklehr@gmx.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to comment on the current spec for MutationObservers.
>
> Some that I have always found confusing is the differentiation between
> properties and attributes of DOM Elements. As I am immersed in writing
> scripts for the DOM, I usually interact with the DOM via the Node's
> properties. Mostly, attributes and properties overlap, however there are
> properties that don't mirror their corresponding attributes.
>
> For example, the `checked` property initially has the same value as its
> attribute. However, when such an element is checked, the property value
> changes whereas the attribute value does not.
> As properties are part of the DOM, it would help very much if such
> property changes were possible to be observed via MutationObservers.
>
> Kind regards,
> Marcel Klehr
>