Re: [cssom] Proposal for obtaining robust style information via Javascript - getStyle()

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 2/1/13 1:06 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> You and Boris are giving me conflicting information about which is
>> better.
>
> I don't think so.
>
> I just said being live is a pain to implement.  Being dead, however, is a
> terrible performance problem.
>
> I didn't state an opinion as to which is "better", or rather less bad... ;)
> For this case, I think a live object is probably better.
>
> What I'm not convinced about is an API that has a polymorphic "immutable
> string or live object" return type, because that seems like a footgun (e.g.
> saving the return value and then checking it later has different behavior
> depending on which flavor of the API you managed to call).
>
> David's proposed API does not have that problem.

Yeah, I like David's API a lot.

~TJ