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data-* support
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(function () { | |
var forEach = [].forEach, | |
regex = /^data-(.+)/, | |
dashChar = /\-([a-z])/ig, | |
el = document.createElement('div'), | |
mutationSupported = false, | |
match | |
; | |
function detectMutation() { | |
mutationSupported = true; | |
this.removeEventListener('DOMAttrModified', detectMutation, false); | |
} | |
function toCamelCase(s) { | |
return s.replace(dashChar, function (m,l) { return l.toUpperCase(); }); | |
} | |
function updateDataset() { | |
var dataset = {}; | |
forEach.call(this.attributes, function(attr) { | |
if (match = attr.name.match(regex)) | |
dataset[toCamelCase(match[1])] = attr.value; | |
}); | |
return dataset; | |
} | |
// only add support if the browser doesn't support data-* natively | |
if (el.dataset != undefined) return; | |
el.addEventListener('DOMAttrModified', detectMutation, false); | |
el.setAttribute('foo', 'bar'); | |
Element.prototype.__defineGetter__('dataset', mutationSupported | |
? function () { | |
if (!this._datasetCache) { | |
this._datasetCache = updateDataset.call(this); | |
} | |
return this._datasetCache; | |
} | |
: updateDataset | |
); | |
document.addEventListener('DOMAttrModified', function (event) { | |
delete event.target._datasetCache; | |
}, false); | |
})(); |
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<!DOCTYPE html> | |
<html> | |
<head> | |
<meta charset=utf-8 /> | |
<title>test data-*</title> | |
<script src="data.js"></script> | |
</head> | |
<body> | |
<p data-id="ok" data-name="remy" data-screen-name="rem" id="hello">Hello World</p> | |
<script> | |
var el = document.getElementById('hello'), dl = el.dataset, a = [], key; | |
for (key in dl) a.push(key + ': ' + dl[key]); | |
alert(a.join('\n')); | |
a.length = 0; | |
el.setAttribute('data-foo', 'bar'); | |
if (el._datasetCache) alert('Houston: we have a problem!'); | |
dl = el.dataset; | |
for (key in dl) a.push(key + ': ' + dl[key]); | |
alert(a.join('\n')); | |
</script> | |
</body> | |
</html> |
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hmm, okay, well, for now I'll stick with just using setAttribute / $.attr, as that works. Not to mention
I don't see any benefit from using el.dataset.*, are there any benefits?