Re: Mutation events replacement from Boris Zbarsky on 2011-07-21 (public-webapps@w3.org from July to September 2011)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:01:39 -0400
To: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
CC: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <4E283F53.8020703@mit.edu>

On 7/21/11 5:08 AM, Dave Raggett wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation. Apps would need a way to disable
> notifications during such animation sequences, and would be able to find
> another means to serialize the animation (at a higher level).

I'm not sure I trust apps to do that, which is why I think the default 
behavior should be that they just don't get the information.

> This raises the question is unregistering and re-regtistering a mutation
> notification handler cheap or do we need an alternative mechanism for
> temporarily suspending notifications?

Olli is better able than I to answer this for Gecko.

-Boris

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