Re: Mutation Observers: a replacement for DOM Mutation Events

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Adam Klein <adamk@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Adam Klein <adamk@chromium.org> wrote:
>>> [Constructor(in MutationCallback callback)]
>>> interface MutationObserver {
>>>   void observe(in Node target, in MutationObserverOptions options);
>>>   void disconnect();
>>> };
>>
>> It would be nice to have both of these return the MutationObserver
>> rather than void, so you can chain calls.
>
> I don't think that makes sense for disconnect() (at least the version
> specced here), since it stops observation of all nodes so chaining
> wouldn't make sense.  But I definitely see that chaining observe could
> be convenient.

// Resetting the observation list
observer
  .disconnect()
  .observe(node1,{...})
  .observe(node2,{...});

~TJ

Received on Friday, 23 September 2011 23:51:35 UTC