Re: Proposal: getStyleAs(property, primitiveValue)

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:27:42 +0200, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> * document.defaultView.getComputedStyle
>   * Too verbose. The defaultView is unrelated to the Element (the DOM
> spec says: "a computed style is related to an Element node").

Isn't this somewhat circular, since document is found in AbstractView? Or  
are there any browsers that need document.defaultView.getComputedStyle  
instead of just getComputedStyle?

> A corresponding method to set a value would not seem to be necessary,
> as any value could be set with:
>
> x.style.color = "papayawhip";

Well, not if there's an !important color declaration somewhere that  
affects x.

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Øyvind Stenhaug
Core Norway, Opera Software ASA