- From: Subbu Allamaraju <subbu.allamaraju@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:44:50 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: public-webapi@w3.org
On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> Subbu Allamaraju wrote:
>> Have you tried?
>
> Yes. Have you? Here, just to help you out:
>
Yes, indeed. It works with the specific example you tried below (using
XHTML), but not for generic XML, which is what the draft is using.
> test.xhtml:
>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="one"/>
>
> test.html:
>
> <script>
> var x = new XMLHttpRequest();
> x.open("GET", "test.xhtml", false);
> x.send("");
> alert(x.responseXML.getElementById('one'));
> </script>
>
> But since you're apparently not willing to test yourself (the amount
> of time it takes to write the test is smaller than the amount of
> time it takes to send all these mails), I'll just let you know that
> Gecko 1.8, Gecko 1.9, Safari 3.1, and Opera 9.25 all hand back the
> HTMLElement from that getElementById call.
That's something :)
Subbu
Received on Thursday, 17 April 2008 17:45:05 UTC