- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:08:24 +0200
- To: João Eiras <joao.eiras@gmail.com>, liorean <liorean@gmail.com>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:23:47 +0200, João Eiras <joao.eiras@gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Does this make sense on Element? I mean, the class attribute and it's
>> semantics are HTML/XHTML specific.
>
>
> The same goes for innerHTML.
> I agree there could be a generic property to access the markup directly,
> but
> innerHTML's name is out of context.
innerHTML is actually not specific to HTML, despite its unfortunate name.
In an XML context, innerHTML, on getting, returns a serialized string of
the node's children, in XML syntax. On setting it parses the assigned
string as XML and replaces the node's children with the parsed XML.
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-dynamic.html#innerhtml1
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Simon Pieters
Opera Software
Received on Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:08:41 UTC