- From: Travis Leithead <travis.leithead@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 22:36:54 +0000
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
> Interesting. We definitely added this because IE supported it and pages > were using it. Those versions of IE didn't support it on the result of > createDocument, because they had no createDocument support at all; there > were MSXML ways to create an XML document and pages would branch on > existence of document.implementation.createDocument and use that or the > MSXML way. Yep, depending on version of IE, the responseXML of XHR might give you an MSXML document (with .load (IE5-9)), or a vanilla Trident document (without load, in IE10+). In IE10 & 11, you can use a responseType of "msxml-document" to still get one of these MSXML docs. However, we will likely be getting rid of the "msxml-document" flag completely in the future. We also would like to avoid implementing .load() in Trident, so if the data shows there's no need, that would be great.
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