98712 - implement xbl element tag

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XBL, defect)

Description

[Mike Lee]

Implement element tag to allow inserting anonymous content as a parent of the
element.

Comment 1

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

No dupes found. Marking NEW.

Comment 2

[Pete Collins (MDG)]

Will this be implemented for 1.0?

--pete

Comment 3

[Mike Lee]

Nominating for 1.0, there is no work around to insert nodes as parent. Makes
extending tags like <img/> impossible. Unless someone can enlighten me

Comment 4

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Bug hasn't been touched in nearly a year; updating milestone and removing 1.0 
keyword as appropriate.

Sounds interesting.  Are you sure there's no workaround?  I recently hit on the 
idea of having the constructor for a binding do the following:

window.addEventListener("load", this.actionDesired(), true);

where you have your desired DOM manipulations take place in a different method 
of the binding.

Comment 5

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Sorry, that actionDesired function should not have parentheses.

Comment 6

[John Morrison]

Don't target a bug that doesn't even have code for the stable 1.0.x branch.

Comment 7

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Cc'ing bryner in case he can take this bug.

/be

Comment 8

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

<element> won't allow this; we've removed this feature from the spec. (<element> 
still exists but does something unrelated and something whose absence is easy to 
work around.)

WONTFIX.

Comment 9

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Just curious, and because others might be interested, I ask the questions here.
Why has it been removed, and where can I find the new updated spec?
Will it be in xbl 1.1 (or 2.0)?
There is no work around to insert nodes as parent,without the use of some ugly
scripting. See comment 3