[whatwg] DOMTokenList methods would be more useful with a space separated token list

[Ojan Vafai]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Aryeh Gregor <ayg at aryeh.name> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Mike Taylor
> > <michaelaarontaylor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I would prefer if it returned the DOMTokenList, to enable chaining like:
> >>
> >>   foo.toggle('bar baz').remove('bat');
> >>
> >> Same for the rest of the DOMTokenList methods, as well.
> >>
> >>   foo.add('bar').remove('baz');
> >>
> >> See also https://github.com/jquery/standards/issues/13 for relevant
> >> discussion.
> >
> > This is not how existing DOM methods tend to behave, but in general I
> > support adding it in more places, because it's very useful for methods
> > that mutate the object they're called on.
>
> Agreed! "That's not how things used to be" is a terrible argument.
> Especially for something that had such bad (== java-esq) design as the
> DOM originally had and to a great extent still has.
>

I agree in general. Changing add/remove is definitely worth doing. In the
case of toggle, WebKit already returns a boolean. Returning the DOMTokenList
is clearly preferable IMO. It's a new enough API that maybe the web doesn't
yet depend on the return value of toggle?

Ojan