- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 12:17:31 +0100
- To: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
The important local slots for an element are its local name, prefix, and namespace. I believe that for certain operations in HTML it is also important to be able to instantiate an element along with several attributes given by the parser so that when the first initialize operations runs it has access to all of those. Though it seems HTML could abstract over that somehow. The main tricky thing here I think is whether it is acceptable to have an element whose name is "a", namespace is the HTML namespace, and interface is Element. I.e. can we break the invariant that the combination of "a" and HTML namespace is always HTMLAnchorElement. If we can break that invariant it seems rather easy to build the hierarchy. The HTMLElement constructor would only take a local name and always have a null prefix and HTML namespace. And HTMLAnchorElement would always be "a". HTMLQuoteElement could accept an enum and we could even add dedicated constructors for <q> and <blockquote> (provided the web allows). -- https://annevankesteren.nl/
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