- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 02:52:21 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Brett Zamir wrote: > >On Mon, 18 May 2009, Brett Zamir wrote: > >> > >> Has any thought been given to standardizing on at least a part of DOM > >> Level 3 Load and Save in HTML5? > > > > DOM3 Load and Save is already standardised as far as I can tell. I > > don't see why HTML5 would have to say anything about it. > > The hope was that there would be some added impetus to have browsers > settle on a standard way of doing this, since to my knowledge, it looks > to me like only Opera has implemented DOM Level 3 L&S (Mozilla for one > hasn't seemed keen on implementing it), and I'm afraid this otherwise > very important functionality will remain unimplemented or unstandardized > across browsers. HTML5 isn't a platform for supporting other specifications; specs should live and die on their own merits. :-) > DOMParser() and XMLSerializer() may be available in more than just > Mozilla, but are not standardized, It may be worth specifying them. I've added them to the list of Things To Specify: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Companion_specifications#Specs_to_edit > and innerHTML, along with the other issues Boris mentioned in the > "DOMParser / XMLSerializer" thread (e.g., being able to parse by content > type like XML), just doesn't sound appropriate to handle plain XML > document when its called "innerHTML". If the name is the biggest problem, I think I'm ready to call it done. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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