> But Gafa's point is that it used to support booleans and abstracted
> dot-property, then changed.
And IMO the clearest parallel to
name : value
is dot-property, since the same format accounts for both cases, while
setAttribute/removeAttribute would be better abstracted something like
name : value
!name
which is obviously not supportable using object literals. The null is
not something that has much place in DOM and I think it's strange to
encourage it in frameworkland. As you probably know, even though
within browsers set(value,null) ~= remove(value), this is only by
happy accident and *not* standard (it's deprecated by individual
browser vendors, but isn't even in the spec enough to be deprecated).
When you more clearly follow the DOM spec, there would be no obvious
way for set(value,null) to be coerced into remove, since
set(value,null) could just as well be coerced to set(value,"null")
which is not the same as remove.
BTW, I do see the dot-property emulation as working in IE8/Moo1.3,
though not in IE7/Moo1.3!
-- S.
