Re: [dom3core] Cross-document appending of nodes

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> FYI: For compatibility reasons with other browsers and websites (which 
> rely on their behavior) Opera now does an implicit call to adoptNode 
> when appendChild, insertBefore or replaceChild are invoked.

Intetesting.  Can you possibly elucidate on why this was needed?  IE/Windows 
does not exhibit this behavior, and we've been trying to eliminate it in Gecko 
(because it causes security issues in many cases); I'm hoping that this behavior 
will be gone in Firefox 3.

Are there specific sites that do browser-sniffing and serve different content to 
IE and other browsers, with the "other browsers" content broken?  If so, 
wouldn't it make more sense for Opera, Mozilla, and Apple to evangelize them 
than to start reverse-engineering each others bugs here?

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:01:30 UTC