Re: Defining a constructor for Element and friends

Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:09:03 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dom.general,gmane.org.w3c.webapps
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Simon Pieters <[email protected]> wrote:
> If so, it seems it removes some flexibility with how HTML uses interfaces.
> In particular many elements use HTMLElement and it should be possible to
> change them to use a more specific interface. How do you envision to solve
> this? Should we assign element-specific interfaces to all post-HTML4
> elements now, just in case? Or make new HTMLElement('ruby') create an
> HTMLRubyElement? Something else?

You are correct that the forward compatibility aspects of Domenic's
proposal are lacking. I think we should introduce classes on a
one-per-element basis. And we should probably lock down some of the
generic interfaces or at least restrict them to only allow elements
with dashes in their name.


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