Re: Mutation events from Boris Zbarsky on 2009-03-12 (www-dom@w3.org from January to March 2009)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:46:46 -0400
To: Sergey Ilinsky <castonet@yahoo.co.uk>
CC: www-dom@w3.org
Message-ID: <49B86986.6050101@mit.edu>

Sergey Ilinsky wrote:
> The sample scenario you provided might not be correct. I would argue 
> that changes made to foo.style object should necessarily lead to the 
> foo@style attribute value change, similarly to input.value property not 
> leading to the change of input@value attribute etc.

Except that the DOM spec for input.value specifically says that changing 
it does not change the "value" attribute, while the DOM spec for 
.style.* explicitly says that the property represents nothing other than 
the style attribute.

> The attribute unless modified by the means of DOM methods (such as removeAttributeNode, 
> setAttributeNS etc. that will actually lead to a dispatch of 
> DOMAttrModified) should preserve its value observed from markup.

That's not the observed behavior of UAs last I checked, not correct per 
the DOM 2 Style spec, and not compatible with the web last I checked.

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 12 March 2009 01:47:30 UTC