I don’t know why they would be different? It seems cool, but the DOM elements have a very specific interface, where ‘setAttribute’ is required to modify state.

I don’t know why they would be different? It seems cool, but the DOM elements have a very specific interface, where ‘setAttribute’ is required to modify state. If you just hang some property off a JavaScript object - that you created to send messages to the DOM using that interface - then why would you expect it to get routed there? Again, that would be a much better API/experience, some challenges but cleaner. Maybe I’ve just been writing backend code for too long. I see an interface like this and I figure there’s some weird shit going on under the hood, and some kind developer from the past gave me the best and safest wrapper she could.