Re: [whatwg/dom] Clarify that new Document creates a document of type "html", not "xml" (#308)

I understand that Gecko needs XMLDocument and XMLDocument.protototype.load. However, now that we dropped XMLDocument.protototype.load from the HTML specification, it seems odd to keep XMLDocument as an interface in the DOM specification.

The situation, for years, was that Firefox had XMLDocument / XMLDocument.prototype.load and WebKit / Blink had XMLDocument as an alias to Document. It is unfortunate that Firefox needs XMLDocument / XMLDocument.prototype.load for backward compatibility. However, other browsers do not have XMLDocument.prototype.load (or intend to have) and they really do not need XMLDocument as a separate type AFAIK. This is why I am arguing for the DOM spec to be changed so that XMLDocument is an alias to Document.

Anyway, I do not have strong feelings. I just feel it would be a cleaner situation for WebKit / WebKit.

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