RE: outerHTML/insertAdjecentHTML in XML mode

Wow. I thought that insertAdjecentHTML was ready for deprecation.

>> There's also the argument that if outerHTML/insertAdjecentHTML is
>> popular enough that we're adding them to HTML [...]

Is this purely conjecture, or is there any data to back this up?

-----Original Message-----
From: public-html-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ian Hickson
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:23 PM
To: Jonas Sicking
Cc: public-html@w3.org
Subject: Re: outerHTML/insertAdjecentHTML in XML mode


On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>
> Is there a reason to not allow outerHTML and insertAdjecentHTML in XML
> serialized HTML documents?
>
> It seems to me like the cost of supporting them is minimal given that
> almost all (if not all) the code will exist since innerHTML is supported
> anyway. And it's nice to be consistent across XML and HTML modes.
>
> There's also the argument that if outerHTML/insertAdjecentHTML is
> popular enough that we're adding them to HTML, why would they be less
> popular in XML serialized documents?

I've added them (though not document.write()), along with a big reorg of
the way HTML5 works with XML.

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