Currently, el.dataset is readonly. A friend of mine passed along a
use-case for making it writeable.
She's making a game, where the game initialization script expects
certain types of elements, and for the initial state data of the
elements to be present in data attributes on them. She'd like
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote:
Thoughts?
URLQuery uses this model. But I reckon that for DOMStringMap it is a
bit trickier since it is actually mostly about manipulating DOM
attributes through a simpler interface. It's not a map that is
serialized to
On 11/30/12 2:23 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
It would be somewhat cleaner if she could simply construct a
DOMStringMap and assign it, like so:
for(var i = 0; i cards.length; i++) {
cards[i].dataset = new DOMStringMap(carddata[i]);
So this would copy the DOMStringMap into the dataset, not
On 11/30/12 7:07 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
Sure. I presume you're afraid of multiple elements sharing the same object?
We can call it afraid or we can call it nonsensical since the object
is just syntactic sugar on top of the (not shared) attributes the
objects have ;)
Really, what
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
She's making a game, where the game initialization script expects
certain types of elements, and for the initial state data of the
elements to be present in data attributes on them. She'd like to be
able to pause the game, shifting all the state
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
She's making a game, where the game initialization script expects
certain types of elements, and for the initial state data of the
elements to be present in data attributes on them.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote:
On 11/30/12 2:23 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
It would be somewhat cleaner if she could simply construct a
DOMStringMap and assign it, like so:
for(var i = 0; i cards.length; i++) {
cards[i].dataset = new
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
She's making a game, where the game initialization script expects
certain types of elements, and for the initial state data of the
