On 20/07/11 16:32, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 7/20/11 4:26 AM, Dave Raggett wrote:
You note that style attributes may be long as an argument against
permitting applications to see the
before value.
The problem is not the length per se. The problem is that the value
is not stored anywhere and has to be generated based on other data
structures, which can be very expensive. For example, as sane
algorithm for generating this value will examine all the individual
CSS property values to determine which of them can be collapsed into
shorthands.
In summary, let's allow applications to choose what data they want to
see!
As long as the "slow as molasses" behavior is opt-in, not opt-out... ;)
-Boris
Perhaps we need to distinguish auto generated attributes from those that
are set by markup or scripts. Could you please clarify for me the
difference between the html "style" attribute and the one you are
referring to? My understanding is that the html style attribute is set
via markup or scripts and *doesn't* reflect all of the computed style
properties for this DOM node.
Many thanks,
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Dave Raggett<d...@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
