- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:28:15 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>, www-dom@w3.org
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Ian Hickson<ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Ian Hickson<ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Bo Yang wrote: >> >> >> >> The Core module define the DOMImplementation interface which is used to >> >> bootstrap the DOM, to create Document and DocumentType. But I can't find >> >> a way to create a specific type of Document from that interface. I mean, >> >> how can I create HTMLDocument from some DOMImplementation? Thanks! >> > >> > With HTML5, all Document objects implement all the subinterfaces >> > (HTMLDocument, SVGDocument, etc) all the time, so going forward it'll be a >> > moot point (unless that requirement is changed). >> >> But how do you create a text/html document (where HTML elements >> .nodeName is uppercase), vs. a application/xhtml+xml document (where >> HTML elements .nodeName is lowercase)? > > On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> >> By using document.open() iirc. > > Yeah, that's one way. Immediately call .open() on the Document after > creating it. Wow, that's a really unintuitive design. Why was this design chosen? / Jonas
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