- From: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:07:28 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: public-script-coord@w3.org
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:
> So I think what is needed to make the DOM drastically easier to use is an
> extension to ECMAScript specific to implementations of the Window-object
> where the literals translate automatically to DOM objects.
I'm unsure that this solves more than the one-time-templating problem
which, as I noted earlier, isn't a problem I think we should even be
solving.
> This extension is
> ideally simpler than E4X and does not have to support all of the DOM.
> Basically elements, attributes, and descendant text nodes are what is
> important here I think.
>
> E.g. to create a hyperlink and append it to a document all you would have to
> do is:
>
> var link = <a href="http://example.org/">Example Organization</a>
> document.body.appendChild(link)
>
> For comparison:
>
> var link = document.createElement("a")
> link.setAttribute("href", "http://example.org/")
> link.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Example Organization"))
> document.body.appendChild(link)
>
> It only gets worse if you have more descendants or attributes.
Quasis get us out of most of this.
Received on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:08:36 UTC