[whatwg] external SCRIPT removal; Setting "parser inserted" to false from Garrett Smith on 2010-11-18 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from November 2010)

From: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:46:39 -0800
Message-ID: <AANLkTik2nFZJKJh7319be9_a8XbC3JZd=tr60T8JXq9E@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/17/10, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote:
>> HTML 5 should specify what happens when a script is removed from the
>> DOM.
>
> I believe it already does. It doesn't say anything about it, so removal has
> no effect. I believe Gecko already complies.

It does but stopping the script, as seen in Opera, seems useful for
the commonly used dynamic script insertion strategies.

Garrett

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