On: HTML Attributes vs. DOM Properties

[afavour]

In what way is that not an issue? What happens when you use .outerHTML to get a string representation of the element? Not to mention that, unavoidably, the entire page HTML arrives to the browser as a string.

[londons_explore → afavour]

Same is true of real javascript objects vs JSON. For example, you can't put Date() in JSON. Nor objects with a prototype.

[no_wizard → londons_explore]

I do want to point out for those who don't know, on objects with a prototype (such as a class) you can control how JSON.stringify works by adding a special method `toJSON`[0] which will control how that object is serialized.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[afavour → londons_explore]

Right… and that’s an issue people have to work around every day. Non string values in HTML world similarly be an issue everyone would have to work around.