Re: A proposal for Element constructors

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:

> On 25/10/11 8:54 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
>
>> Another solution to that "more than one tag per interface" problem is
>> to introduce subclasses of those interfaces for each tag.
>>
>
> Instead of introducing more interfaces (which don't have additional
> functionality), and instead of introducing Element.create, I would rather
> see a pattern like:
>
>  var e = new Element("div", ...);
>

This exists in the Prototype.js lib (
http://api.prototypejs.org/dom/Element/new/) which has seen massive
abandonment in the past 3-4 years.


>
> There is no requirement that the object returned from a constructor be an
> object that has the constructor.prototype as its [[Prototype]], so having
> the above constructor return an HTMLDivElement is fine.
>
> (Also note that the constructor text nodes should be Text rather than
> TextNode, according to the interface name in DOM Core.)
>
>