Re: [whatwg] Missing HTMLSelectElement.autocomplete from Matthew Noorenberghe on 2014-06-05 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from June 2014)

From: Matthew Noorenberghe <MattN+whatwg@mozilla.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 19:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
To: Dan Beam <dbeam@chromium.org>
Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Ilya Sherman <isherman@chromium.org>, Evan Stade <estade@chromium.org>
Message-ID: <1179069041.3465859.1401936139410.JavaMail.zimbra@mozilla.com>

Thanks Ian.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Beam" <dbeam@chromium.org>
>
> It'd be nice to avoid more attribute accessors (and encourage authors
> to use getAttribute() instead), but if <input> and <textarea> have
> them we should probably be consistent.

At least in this case it's not just mirroring the attribute content so it adds some value over getAttribute.

Matthew Noorenberghe

Received on Thursday, 5 June 2014 02:42:42 UTC