[Proto-Scripty] Re: Expando or data- like attributes?

2010-10-21 Thread buda
Thanks T.J. Now everything became clear. On 20 окт, 16:15, T.J. Crowder t...@crowdersoftware.com wrote: Hi, But, as I understud, expando properties == custom attributes No, properties and attributes are very different things, as I said. You have to be cautious when using expandos, and if

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Expando or data- like attributes?

2010-10-20 Thread T.J. Crowder
Hi, maybe I'm confusing javascript properties to the attributes? Yes, I think you are. Easy enough to do, but they're really quite distinct things. HTML elements have attributes, which (initially) come from the markup and are accessible via the DOM methods `getAttribute` and `setAttribute`

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Expando or data- like attributes?

2010-10-20 Thread buda
T.J., thanks for an exhaustive explanation! But, as I understud, expando properties == custom attributes and its not good, but I see expando on extended elements in prototype! Will this to migrate to storage functionality or its not so bad practice? On 20 окт, 12:51, T.J. Crowder

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Expando or data- like attributes?

2010-10-20 Thread T.J. Crowder
Hi, But, as I understud, expando properties == custom attributes No, properties and attributes are very different things, as I said. You have to be cautious when using expandos, and if you're using Prototype there's not much reason to (use the storage stuff instead), but they're not bad per se.

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Expando or data- like attributes?

2010-10-19 Thread buda
Or should I use .storage object? But in this case I couldnt do search like $$('p[myAttr=foo]') On 20 окт, 01:59, buda www...@pochta.ru wrote: I'm confused at all. On the one hand HTML declares the existence of the elements expando- attributes. On the other hand HTML5 says that all illegal

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Expando or data- like attributes?

2010-10-19 Thread buda
maybe I'm confusing javascript properties to the attributes? how do they compare? On 20 окт, 02:03, buda www...@pochta.ru wrote: Or should I use .storage object? But in this case I couldnt do search like $$('p[myAttr=foo]') On 20 окт, 01:59, buda www...@pochta.ru wrote: I'm confused