- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:06:14 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
>> I assume that web compatibility requires attributes to be live.
>
> It may well, yes.... In which case the current spec text is probably not
> ok. Data would be good.
I think live is preferable for other reasons too. First off it's a
good idea for consistency with similar properties. Second, code like
the following would be very inefficient otherwise:
for (i = 0; i < el.attributes.length; i++) {
if (el.attributes[i].name == "foo" ||
el.attributes[i].name == "bar")
doStuff(el.attributes[i].value);
else
doOtherStuff(el.attributes[i].value);
}
/ Jonas
Received on Monday, 20 June 2011 07:07:15 UTC