[whatwg] classList should perhaps move from HTMLElement to Element from Anne van Kesteren on 2010-11-23 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from November 2010)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:08:11 +0100
Message-ID: <op.vmm0rxv364w2qv@anne-van-kesterens-macbook-pro.local>

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:06:02 +0100, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
> On 11/23/10 2:02 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> So if I set Element.className on an element that is not in a namespace
>> and has no attributes. Its attributes collection remains empty or
>> something?
>
> Hmm.  I would think this should throw (since this won't do what you  
> expect; e.g. CSS selectors and getElemetsByClassName won't start  
> matching it).

I would much rather just make it work. Otherwise moving it to Element does  
not really seem right.


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Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/

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