Re: Review of the <template> spec

On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:04:20 +0100, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:
>>> 1. If DOCUMENT does not have a browsing context, Let TEMPLATE CONTENTS  
>>> OWNER be DOCUMENT and abort these steps.
>>> 2. Otherwise, Let TEMPLATE CONTENTS OWNER be a new Document node that  
>>> does not have a browsing context.
>>
>> Is there a big win from this inconsistency? Why not always have a
>> separate doc as the template contents owner?
>
> Or why not always use the owner document of the <template> element?

I think that would cause things like <img> elements to load.

> Documents are fairly heavy-weight and introducing several documents
> into the mix means that we have to deal with issues like making sure
> that those documents have the same behavior (for example, if HTML
> elements in those documents uppercase the nodeName or not)
>
> / Jonas


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Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Friday, 14 December 2012 09:33:25 UTC