Re: Why HTML should be taught as HTML without pretending it is XML

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
> In WebKit, we recently changed createElement() to always create elements 
> in the HTML namespace always. [...] I think HTML5 should change to 
> require this even for XML documents (it currently requires it only for 
> HTML documents, in the text/html sense).

That seems like overstepping our bounds, since createElement() when no 
HTML is involved would be something defined only in the DOM Core spec, not 
the HTML spec.

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