Hey Jonas, nice proposal, overall I like it a lot.
On Jun 4, 2009, at 11:07 , Jonas Sicking wrote:
'AttributeChanged': Called when an attribute on the node is changed. This can be either a attribute addition, removal, or change in value. If setAttribute is called the 'AttributeChanged' listener is always called, even if the attribute is given the same value as it already had. This is because it may be expensive to compare if the old and new value was the same, if the value is internally stored in a parsed form.
I take it in this case the Attr node is what's passed? Might give a reason for its sorry existence :)
'ChildlistChanged': Called if one or or mode children are added or removed to the node. So for example when innerHTML is set, replacing 10 existing nodes with 20 new ones, only one call is made to the 'ChildlistChanged' listeners on that node. 'SubtreeChanged': Same as 'ChildlistChanged', but called not just for children added/removed to the node, but also to any descendants of the node.
If multiple nodes are changed at once, I'm guessing you call back with a DocumentFragment? For interoperability purposes, this would probably require a definition of what a single "DOM operation" is (or we could punt and say it's up to the implementation — after all so long as the script gets notified of changes everything should work).
I'm thinking we might need ChildElementsChanged and ElementsSubtreeChanged that would handle only elements as well.
'TextDataChanged': Called when the data in a Text, CDATASection or ProcessingInstruction, is changed on the node or any of its decendants.
Hmmmmm. If I set the listener on a PI, then I might be interested in this event — in which case it should be available on comment nodes too. But then again, it seems to imply that I wouldn't get notified of changes to the PI's target.
If on the other hand I listen to this on an element, I probably don't want to hear about changes made to PIs (or comments) in the subtree.
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