[Bug 12584] outerHTML should probably merge with adjacent text nodes if applicable. IE seems to do this to some extent, and WebKit just changed to do it: <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52686> This test shows behavior for outerText and outerHTML: <http://so from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2012-09-21 (public-webapps-bugzilla@w3.org from September 2012)

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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12584

Bug 12584 depends on bug 11204, which changed state.

Bug 11204 Summary: Defer to DOM Parsing for innerHTML et al
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11204

           What    |Old Value                   |New Value
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED

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