[whatwg] Make DOMStringMap constructable, and el.dataset writeable?

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>
> She's making a game, where the game initialization script expects 
> certain types of elements, and for the initial state data of the 
> elements to be present in data attributes on them.  She'd like to be 
> able to pause the game, shifting all the state data into localStorage, 
> then later resume by pulling it back onto elements before starting the 
> game script.

Presumably you wouldn't necessarily want to grab _all_ the data-* 
attributes, since some might be from other libraries, or temporary 
transitional values used for animations or tracking things like mouse 
position.


> It would be somewhat cleaner if she could simply construct a
> DOMStringMap and assign it

I don't really understand what you would do with the DOMStringMap and 
localStorage. Can you elaborate?

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