Keep reference to the object in storage of a paragraph, video and etc

On 4 ноя, 23:09, Luke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> sorry for the non-descriptive topic, I couldn't think of anything
> better. However, I'm currently working on a project where you can
> create simple webpages by adding different types of paragraphs, (eg.
> Text, Image, Video) one below the other, and edit their contents, move
> or delete them. Basically like this:
>
> http://blogage.de/files/60901/image
>
> Im rewriting the JS and I have a little problem here; I recently read
> that extending the DOM is basically a bad idea and that in Prototype 2
> they will even stop that practice. Now my idea (actually) was, for a
> project like this, to create classes for each paragraph-type with
> methods and properties that I would extend the paragraph-DOM with. I
> mean that if I had, like in the above image, three paragraphs, each
> would be represented by a DIV with the class="paragraph text" or
> class="paragraph video" etc. On the JS-side there would be classes
> like "Text" or "Video" which would have a method that would extend
> those DIVs with functions and properties necessary to edit, move or
> delete that paragraph. When, for example, the user clicks on an
> editlink, it simply would call its paragraph's edit-method. Everything
> would be nice and clean.
>
> But now I know, extending is bad. So I'm kinda stuck here, I don't
> know how to write unobtrusive JS without writing terrible spaghetti-
> esque code with lots of observers. I mean I could still organize parts
> of the code in classes, but there would be a long list of observers
> (eg. for clicking an edit-link) with switch-cases for the types of
> paragraphs. Actually even with extending the DOM I'm not totally sure
> how I would catch the edit-clicking event. As I said, I'm kind of
> stuck :). Can you help me with ideas? How would you do this?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Luke

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