Re: Element.createElement proposal

Johnny Stenback <[email protected]> wrote:
> What I don't like about svgElement.createElement() is that it seems a 
> bit odd to have to find an element to create one, which makes the
> case where you're inserting SVG into a document where there is no
> existing SVG such that developers still need to type out that
> namespace URI they don't want to type out. svgElement.createChild()
> doesn't make any sense to me as there's no child relationship between
> the element you use for creating and the element that gets created.

What's wrong with

  var parent = document.getElementById("putsvghere"); // HTML elt
  var svg = parent.addChild('svg'); // HTML5 'svg' elt = SVG root elt
  var circle = svg.addChild('circle', {...}); // SVG 'circle'

?  The same would work for <math>.

zw