[Project_owners] Speeding Up Extensions/Performance

[Adam Kowalczyk]

xeen wrote:
> Interestingly. Do you have a bug at hand? And do you know if it
> applies to JS setters as well (e.g. element.value=123)? If not, it's
> worth to note that either if+setter or setAttribute should be
> utilized.
> Greetings
> xeen
>   

Setting a property is usually equivalent to setting an attribute, 
because setters (which are implemented in XBL)  set the attribute 
anyway. In fact, in many cases it's all they do. Take your own example 
of statusbarpanel.label:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/toolkit/content/widgets/general.xml#241

- Adam