- From: Michael A. Puls II <shadow2531@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:33:54 -0400
- To: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On 4/23/08, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > Michael A. Puls II wrote: > > > What I was asking is, if you implemented a reinitialize() for OBJECT > > natively that did the clone, insert, remove deal just like I did, > > would you have any trouble making it so I wouldn't have to do: > > obj = obj.reinitialize() > > and instead could do just: > > obj.reinitialize(); > > and still make 'obj' point to the new object? > > > > Yeah, that wouldn't really work very easily, especially since the old > object is still around. > > It's maybe _possible_ to do that, but it's not easy at all in Gecko, and I > doubt it's easy in other UAs. O.K. > Of course if we implemented reinitialize() internally, there would be no > cloning involved, I would think. O.K. Thanks. -- Michael
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