[whatwg] document.contentType

• From: João Eiras <joao.eiras@gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:39:09 +0200
• Message-ID: <op.uuyw3i0qjz3wb9@coruscant>

> In HTML5, HTML elements in text/html are put in the XHTML namespace and text/html might contain SVG or MathML elements, so you probably want to conditionally call getElementsByTagNameNS based on e.g. the root element's namespaceURI rather than the document's HTMLness.
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I think the major advantage of document.contentType is to know the value of the Content-Type header (without charset) sent by the server.
This would be good for 3rd party libraries or client side scripts.

Received on Wednesday, 3 June 2009 14:39:09 UTC