On 7/20/11 4:26 AM, Dave Raggett wrote:
You note that style attributes may be long as an argument against permitting applications to see the before value.
The problem is not the length per se. The problem is that the value is not stored anywhere and has to be generated based on other data structures, which can be very expensive. For example, as sane algorithm for generating this value will examine all the individual CSS property values to determine which of them can be collapsed into shorthands.
In summary, let's allow applications to choose what data they want to see!
As long as the "slow as molasses" behavior is opt-in, not opt-out... ;) -Boris
