Re: Convenient way to create element and set its attributes at once from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2013-12-03 (www-dom@w3.org from October to December 2013)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 08:19:55 -0800
To: Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com>
Cc: "Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com" <mtanalin@yandex.ru>, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com>, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDCnD7JRThUvDcAZQEFigMZq-vV9tG6s+ZAZdM283O4ZCA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Yes, and it's not just you—the "single function/constructor/method that
>> > accepts a string and produces a node" is a common pattern implemented by
>> > all
>> > major libraries:
>> >
>> > Y.Node.create("<div>");
>> > jQuery("<div>");
>> > dojo.create("div");
>> > new Element("div");
>> > new Ext.dom.Element("div");
>>
>> There's *also* a common pattern of something like "HTML.h1()", for
>> simple "templating in JS" libraries.
>
> References?

I've never actually used them, so I can't name any off the top of my
head. ^_^  I'll ask on Twitter.

~TJ

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