Re: Element.create(): a proposal for more convenient element creation

On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
> >
> > In an IRC discussion with Ian Hickson and Tab Atkins, we can up with 
> > the following idea for convenient element creation:
> >
> > Element.create(tagName, attributeMap, children…)
> 
> Can we alternatively extend document.createElement?  Or was this 
> intentionally avoided to associate new elements with documents?

We could, but I'd much rather have the shorter name, personally. Having 
the name be so long really makes that API unusable.

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