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

On Thu, Jun 20, 2024, 1:27 PM Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > he/him > I can understand that from a browser perspective, but from PHP, where we might be manipulating HTML to send back to the client, having it readonly would be a pretty big hindrance. >