Re: Improving the DOM

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:

> Here is a revised proposal based on Ojan's earlier proposal to this list.
> These new methods are subject to compatibility testing.
>
> We introduce a DocumentContent union type (DOMString maps to a Text node):
>
> DOMString | CharacterData | Element | DocumentFragment
>
> We introduce these methods on Element and DocumentFragment:
>
> prepend(DocumentContent... nodes)
> append(DocumentContent... nodes)
>
> We introduce these methods on Element, DocumentFragment, and
> CharacterData:


> before(DocumentContent... nodes)
> after(DocumentContent... nodes)
>

What does DocumentFragment before and after do?


>
> We introduce this method on Element and CharacterData:
>
> replace(DocumentContent... nodes)
>
> We introduce this method on DocumentType, Element, and CharacterData:
>
> remove()
>
>
Why can we remove a DocumentType but not do anything else with it? That
makes the API anti symmetrical to me


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