RE: [cssom] Proposal for obtaining robust style information via Javascript - getStyle() from François REMY on 2013-02-01 (www-style@w3.org from February 2013)

From: François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 20:56:05 +0100
To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
CC: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <DUB002-W7241A3237C78D041D47A3FA51C0@phx.gbl>

> > What I'm not convinced about is an API that has a polymorphic "immutable
> > string or live object" return type, because that seems like a footgun (e.g.
> > saving the return value and then checking it later has different behavior
> > depending on which flavor of the API you managed to call).
> >
> > David's proposed API does not have that problem.
>
> Yeah, I like David's API a lot.
>

Me too, FWIW. It reminds me 'style', 'runtimeStyle' and 'currentStyle' of IE. BTW, it's maybe the good time to support the 'override' style level (more or less 'runtimeStyle' of IE)

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