Re: About dropping the style attribute

Jens Meiert wrote:

>> I've realized now that the current spec drops the style attribute for
>> all elements except for the <font>, but I can't understand the
>> reasoning behind those decisions.
>
> And neither do I, and according to my experience as well as the  
> discussion on that subject there are several cases why we need to  
> keep the "style" attribute.

Some of the common JavaScript libraries use this for performance and  
consistency reasons, too. Prototype, for example, uses the [style] to  
toggle style values for a couple reasons. 1) So it doesn't have to  
override !important styles, and 2) because when checking the  
displayed state, performance of getAttribute is much faster than  
getComputedStyle.

James