[whatwg] Mutation Observer arguments format

[Alex Russell]

The old API is confusing. We can do better, so we should.


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay at helsinki.fi>wrote:

> On 03/12/2013 12:34 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Alex Russell <slightlyoff at google.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>
>> My main thought is that it's a pita to change the API at this time now
>> it's unprefixed everywhere and we've been encouraging developers to
>> use it in favor of mutation events. If Adam/Rafael/Olli/Jonas are
>> willing to update WebKit/Gecko though I guess I don't really care.
>>
>>
>>
> We could keep the old behavior and extend it to support types.
> But since the change isn't backward compatible (scripts using types
> wouldn't work in
> older browsers), I'd like to understand the need for the change.
>
> -Olli
>