Re: Convenient way to create element and set its attributes at once

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Domenic Denicola
<[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]>
>> It would be useful for HTML to do the same, so you could call "new HTML.div(...)" instead of "new HTMLDivElement(...)".
>
> This seems like a really cool plan. (Although of course ES6 modules would be better, but, no need to hold up the platform waiting for them... namespaces are fine in the meantime.)

Agreed.

>> It would also let us establish a one-to-one constructor to tagname correspondence, so "HTML.h1()" works instead of "HTMLHeadingElement('h1',...)".
>
> I guess it would not be a constructor in that case though, i.e. you'd do `var myH1 = HTML.h1()` instead of `var myH1 = new HTML.h1()`, since otherwise you would break the `new X instanceof X` invariant.

Hm, I don't understand.  instanceof just walks the prototype chains,
and the functions denoted by "HTMLHeadingElement" and "HTML.h1" can
have the same prototype.  I suspect I'm missing something in your
statement.

~TJ