RE: Convenient way to create element and set its attributes at once from Domenic Denicola on 2013-12-02 (www-dom@w3.org from October to December 2013)

From: Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 19:11:12 +0000
To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
CC: Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com>, Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com <mtanalin@yandex.ru>, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
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From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>

> HTML.h1 = function(...args) { return new HTMLHeadingElement("h1", ...args); };
> HTML.h1.prototype = HTMLHeadingElement.prototype;

Seems OK, but why not just

HTML.h1 = function(...args) { return new HTMLHeadingElement("h1", ...args); };

and don't call it with `new`? Having multiple constructors for the same prototype feels ... unusual ...

Received on Monday, 2 December 2013 19:12:02 UTC