- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:28:31 +0000
On 1/23/06, Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:15:39 +0600, Lachlan Hunt > <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote: > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20011210/html.html#ID-75233634 > > I'm surprised. document.write is defined but it's substantially different > from what the browsers implement. DOM 2 says that write() can be called > only between calls to open() and close(), and that a call to open() clears > the existing content of the document. That's because the existence of a global object called document that points to the current document doesn't exist in any standard. > This is very different from the > current practice of calling write() without open() to inject unparsed HTML > into an already-parsed document. Er, no, no UA supports this, it supports it in HTML documents _that are being parsed_ but not ones that are already parsed where document.write performs an implied document.open() so content is cleared. Jim.
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