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

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Roland Steiner <rolandsteiner@google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
>> This doesn't explain why a factory method is better than explicit
>> constructors though? The above could be written as
>>
>> new HTMLParagraphElement(null, "foo", ...);
>
> It's not a general use case, but at least when it comes to XBL-like
> components, having a factory method that does all the lookup and
> binding behing the scenes probably is easier to implement than hooking
> a constructor (FWIW).

I am not sure it will be easier but it does seem that it would be more
natural to an author to write:

var foo = new FooButton();

than:

var foo = Element.create('x-foo-button').

:DG<

Received on Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:11:08 UTC