Re: [webcomponents] Template element parser changes => Proposal for adding DocumentFragment.innerHTML from Scott González on 2012-05-10 (public-webapps@w3.org from April to June 2012)

From: Scott González <scott.gonzalez@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 19:05:54 -0400
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Rafael Weinstein <rafaelw@google.com>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> But I'm very skeptical about creating new APIs to encourage authors to use
> injection-prone, non-type-checked, direct string manipulation in script to
> generate DOM trees.
>

Do you realize that a very large percentage of developers are already doing
this and will continue to do it regardless of whether UAs provide this
functionality?

Received on Thursday, 10 May 2012 23:06:26 UTC