- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:55:03 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Simon Pieters wrote: > > Some tests to figure out what IE does: > > http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0D%0A%3Cscript%3E%0D%0Avar%20e%20%3D%20document.createElement%28%22body%22%29%3B%0D%0Adocument.insertBefore%28e%2C%20document.documentElement%29%3B%0D%0Ae.appendChild%28document.createElement%28%22html%22%29%29%3B%0D%0Adocument.dir%3D%22ltr%22%3B%0D%0A%3C/script%3E > http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0D%0A%3Cscript%3E%0D%0Avar%20e%20%3D%20document.createElement%28%22foo%22%29%3B%0D%0Adocument.insertBefore%28e%2C%20document.documentElement%29%3B%0D%0Ae.appendChild%28document.createElement%28%22html%22%29%29%3B%0D%0Adocument.dir%3D%22ltr%22%3B%0D%0A%3C/script%3E > http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0D%0A%3Cscript%3E%0D%0Avar%20e%20%3D%20document.createElement%28%22body%22%29%3B%0D%0Adocument.insertBefore%28e%2C%20document.documentElement%29%3B%0D%0Avar%20ee%20%3D%20document.createElement%28%22bar%22%29%3B%0D%0Ae.appendChild%28ee%29%3B%0D%0Aee.appendChild%28document.createElement%28%22html%22%29%29%3B%0D%0Adocument.dir%3D%22ltr%22%3B%0D%0A%3C/script%3E These all show a core DOM bug in IE, namely that it allows more than one element child of the Document. > Now, I suggest that the definition of "the html element" be changed to > match what IE does, i.e.: > > The html element of a document is the first html element that doesn't > have a body or frameset element ancestor, if there is one, or null > otherwise. I don't see any benefit to this -- it would only change the behaviour in non-compliant documents, and yet introduces some level of complexity to do so. The current text seems fine to me. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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