Re: Element.createElement proposal

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

In the original proposal this would only work if the element with id 
"putsvghere" is an SVG element (which I take it was not the case since 
you add an <svg> element into it).

/ Jonas