[Bug 15447] support for document.write should not be required

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15447

--- Comment #2 from Stijn van Drongelen <self@tinctorius.net> 2012-01-07 11:31:06 UTC ---
I'm planning to plan (sic) to write a user agent. One of my design rules is
that the agent may ignore parts of standards, if I deem those parts
unnecessarily inelegant. The gist of HTML5 is good enough, but I don't want to
be bothered by things like `document.write`. If parts of a website break
because its author decided to use obsolete technology, it's their problem.

Even if I weren't planning on bringing yet another UA to the market, I think
the way `document.write` works burdens both user agent implementers and HTML5
authors with a lot of extra headaches, while (I assume) so little is gained by
supporting it.

I am sure that `document.write` will die some day, and we will all rejoice. The
first step to killing this foul-breathed monster is to stop requiring to
supporting it, especially on pages that consider themselves to be mature enough
to trigger HTML5 no-quirks mode.

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Received on Saturday, 7 January 2012 11:33:10 UTC