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

On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:31:04 +0200, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>  
wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> MooTools is basically identical to Prototype, except that you can
>>> additionally set listeners on the element during creation by using a
>>> magical "events" property in the attribute bag, which takes an object
>>> of event names and functions.  This would be nice to look into adding.
>>
>> Is this much better than just saying eg. Element.create("a", {href:
>> "http://link", onclick: function(e) { ... } }, "link"}?
>
> Hmm, is everything exposed as on* attributes now?  If so, then yeah,
> just do that; no need to mess around with a magic property in the
> attributes bag.

This would still be magical as it is setting an IDL attribute rather than  
a content attribute.


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Received on Wednesday, 3 August 2011 07:34:51 UTC