Re: Element.createElement proposal

On 08/10/2009 06:06 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 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'

What should that code do if you replace parent.addChild('svg') with 
parent.addChild('a')? And does this always append, or insert at the 
beginning, what if I want to insert somewhere in the middle etc etc?

>
> ?  The same would work for<math>.
>
> zw

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jst