On Thu, 10 May 2012, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > > > Yes, I understand that. But what's the use case? > > The use-case is to provide a more convenient API for developers. > > The whole purpose of this thread is to provide a convenience API which > provides context-free parsing. If we don't care about providing such > convenience for authors we should just tell them to use the > already-defined .innerHTML or a custom HTML parser and this whole thread > is just moot. My understanding is that the context for this thread is how to support <template>. Neither innerHTML nor a custom HTML parser will help for that. On Thu, 10 May 2012, Scott González wrote: > > Why is simplicity not enough of an answer? It's a fine answer. But I don't think magical APIs are simple. Simplicity in this case IMHO argues for explicitly selected context. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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