Re: [RFC] [Vote] New ext-dom features in PHP 8.4

On 20/06/2024 16:28, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 1:15 PM Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@gmail.com > <mailto:dossche.niels@gmail.com>> 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. > > -- > Matthew Weier O'Phinney > mweierophinney@gmail.com > <mailto:mweierophinney@gmail.com> > https://mwop.net/ > <https://mwop.net/> > he/him Kind regards Niels