Re: [RFC] [Vote] New ext-dom features in PHP 8.4
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024, 1:27 PM Niels Dossche <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20/06/2024 16:28, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 1:15 PM Niels Dossche <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi internals
> >
> > I'm opening the vote of my RFC "New ext-dom features in PHP 8.4".
> > RFC link: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/dom_additions_84 <
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/dom_additions_84>
> > Voting runs until 24th of June 21:00 GMT+2.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Niels
> >
> >
> > Question: why is Dom\Document::$head marked as readonly?
>
> The HTML spec defines the head property to be readonly:
> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#document
> That's why $head is marked readonly.
>
> So I guess the question becomes "why does the HTML spec define it this
> way?"
> I couldn't find a conclusive answer to this, it looks like this has been
> read-only since HTML's early days...
> I thought about it but don't really see a technical reason why this is the
> case. If I had to take a guess I'd say it's for simplicity sake.
> > he/him
>
I can understand that from a browser perspective, but from PHP, where we
might be manipulating HTML to send back to the client, having it readonly
would be a pretty big hindrance.
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