Why is the DOMSubtreeModified event deprecated in DOM level 3?

Question

Why is the DOMSubtreeModified event deprecated and what are we supposed to use instead?

Answer 1

I think the replacement will be mutation observers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObserver

var whatToObserve = {childList: true, attributes: true, subtree: true, attributeOldValue: true, attributeFilter: ['class', 'style']};
var mutationObserver = new MutationObserver(function(mutationRecords) {
  $.each(mutationRecords, function(index, mutationRecord) {
    if (mutationRecord.type === 'childList') {
      if (mutationRecord.addedNodes.length > 0) {
        //DOM node added, do something
      }
      else if (mutationRecord.removedNodes.length > 0) {
        //DOM node removed, do something
      }
    }
    else if (mutationRecord.type === 'attributes') {
      if (mutationRecord.attributeName === 'class') {
        //class changed, do something
      }
    }
  });
});
mutationObserver.observe(document.body, whatToObserve);