On 8/07/11 8:28 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:21 PM, John J Barton
<johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com> wrote:
Jonas Sicking wrote:
We are definitely
short on use cases for mutation events in general which is a problem.
3. Client side dynamic translation. Intercept mutations and replace or
extend them. This could be for user tools like scriptish or stylish, dev
tools to inject marks or code, or for re-engineering complex sites for newer
browser features.
I don't fully understand this. Can you give more concrete examples?
- MathJax (http://mathjax.org) is a JS lib that facilitates putting math
onto the web by converting LaTeX or MathML markup in a page to HTML. By
default MathJax triggers off the onload event to run this conversion on
the page. When content containing math is dynamically added to the page,
MathJax must be called manually to convert the new content. A DOM
insertion listener could potentially be used to handle this conversion
automatically.
- A similar use-case is element augmentation too complex for CSS :before
and :after
- ARIA support in JS libs currently involves updating aria-attributes to
be appropriate to behavior the lib is implementing. Attribute mutation
listeners would allow an inverse approach - behaviors being triggered
off changes to aria-attributes.
- DOM insertion and removal listeners could facilitate the
implementation of automatically updating Table-of-* (Headings / Images /
etc).
