- From: Dominic Cooney <dominicc@chromium.org>
- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:18:18 +0900
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:
> So far we discussed having Element.create() and having new methods on Node
> that would be more practical than what we have today. Maybe we should
> combine these in some way? Charles proposed some kind of JSON serialization,
> but I do not think it makes sense to tie it to JSON.
>
> It could be something like this:
>
> ELEMENT = [NAME, optional ATTRS, optional EVENT_HANDLERS, TEXT | ELEMENT
> ...]
>
> E.g. <div>Hello <a href="/">World</a></div> is represented as:
>
> ["div", "Hello ", ["a", {href:"/"}, "World"]]
This is good in that it doesn't require any new bound identifiers.
I think readability suffers a bit because element names and text are
both strings.
If you want to pass a list of children as a parameter, there is also
no good serialization for it. Using a list is weak because it is the
same type as an element.
What about using constructor functions for elements? [HTMLDivElement,
'Hello ', [HTMLAElement, {href: '/'}, 'World']].
> Then the new methods we introduce could accept the above syntax to make it
> easier to append new elements to the DOM.
>
> ele.append(['div'])
>
> would append a <div> element. If you want to append several elements, you
> would use
>
> ele.append("Hello ", ["i", "World"])
>
> I.e. append() takes "infinite" arguments.
>
>
> --
> Anne van Kesteren
> http://annevankesteren.nl/
>
>
Received on Tuesday, 4 October 2011 09:18:45 UTC