- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:23:14 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > Is there a reason to not allow outerHTML and insertAdjecentHTML in XML > serialized HTML documents? > > It seems to me like the cost of supporting them is minimal given that > almost all (if not all) the code will exist since innerHTML is supported > anyway. And it's nice to be consistent across XML and HTML modes. > > There's also the argument that if outerHTML/insertAdjecentHTML is > popular enough that we're adding them to HTML, why would they be less > popular in XML serialized documents? I've added them (though not document.write()), along with a big reorg of the way HTML5 works with XML. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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