I'll take care of the V8 bindings. :DG<
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Darin Adler<[email protected]> wrote: > There are many attributes in the DOM that are simply covers for getting and > setting HTML or SVG attributes. The HTML 5 draft calls this reflection of > content attributes. > > Currently we do this by writing getter and setter functions. For example, > see the placeholder and useMap attributes of HTMLInputElement. > > A better way to do this is to declare that the attribute reflects a content > attribute in the .idl file, and have the bindings call setAttribute and > getAttribute directly. I plan to do this, with the following syntax. This > indicates that the title attribute reflects a content attribute named title: > > attribute [Reflect] DOMString title; > > This indicates that the className DOM attribute reflects a content attribute > named class: > > attribute [Reflect=class] DOMString className; > > This indicates that the src DOM attribute reflects a content attribute named > src, but that the result is a completed URL, not the raw attribute value: > > attribute [ReflectURL] DOMString src; > > I’m going to begin this work with this bug > <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25425>. That bug talks about a need > to change the details of various getters and setters, and I decided it was > better not to do this, but rather to have the getters and setters be > auto-generated. > > I will implement this for the JavaScript bindings and Objective-C bindings, > but someone else will have to take care of the V8 bindings. > > Once the bindings are working, I plan to remove the functions in the DOM > implementation classes. So I would delete the HTMLInputElement::placeholder > and HTMLInputElement::setPlaceholder functions once the [Reflect] attribute > has been used for them. > > For now I will begin by implementing [Reflect] and using it in a few places, > but I won’t delete any functions from the DOM implementation classes yet. > > -- Darin > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
