On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Aryeh Gregor <a...@aryeh.name> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Mike Taylor > <michaelaarontay...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I would prefer if it returned the DOMTokenList, to enable chaining like: >> >> foo.toggle('bar baz').remove('bat'); >> >> Same for the rest of the DOMTokenList methods, as well. >> >> foo.add('bar').remove('baz'); >> >> See also https://github.com/jquery/standards/issues/13 for relevant >> discussion. > > This is not how existing DOM methods tend to behave, but in general I > support adding it in more places, because it's very useful for methods > that mutate the object they're called on.
Agreed! "That's not how things used to be" is a terrible argument. Especially for something that had such bad (== java-esq) design as the DOM originally had and to a great extent still has. / Jonas