Re: Element.createElement proposal

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Ted Mielczarek
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Instead of using a JS object, it's probably more performant, and I think
>> slightly more convenient, to just specify extra arguments:
>>  e.addChild("span", "class", "hello", "style", "width:100px");
>> You can write it as
>>  e.addChild("span",
>>             "class", "hello",
>>              "style", "width:100px");
>> if you like.
>>
>
> That strikes me as less intuitive, and it also doesn't match what existing
> JS libraries like jQuery provide:
> http://docs.jquery.com/Attributes/attr#properties
> http://docs.jquery.com/CSS/css#properties

I agree -- having to count out the strings to build the pairings of
attribute and value seems error-prone, and it's pretty hard to build
the parameters for such a call programmatically.

Mike