On 8/2/11, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Glenn Maynard <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> MooTools is basically identical to Prototype, except that you can >>> additionally set listeners on the element during creation by using a >>> magical "events" property in the attribute bag, which takes an object >>> of event names and functions. This would be nice to look into adding. >> >> Is this much better than just saying eg. Element.create("a", {href: >> "http://link";, onclick: function(e) { ... } }, "link"}? > > Hmm, is everything exposed as on* attributes now? If so, then yeah, > just do that; no need to mess around with a magic property in the > attributes bag. > Good example.
Libraries that cover up the underlying APIs proliferate misconceptions about how those underlying APIs work. Thanks. -- Garrett
