On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Elliott Sprehn wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@apple.com> wrote: > > > > ... Is that even a valid use case? It seems dubious to instantiate a > > class named "request" and then not send a request. > > You can't go down that line of thinking because it doesn't generalize. > For instance why would I instantiate a class named "node" without > putting it into the tree?
There are all kinds of reasons why you may do this. Hence, we support it. Reasoning by use case definitely generalises -- it's how we design everything around here. :-) > If we followed that logic then new HTMLDivElement should append itself > into the document by default. A more apt example would be the way <audio>, when constructed with a URL, immediately starts loading it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'