- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:25:31 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Simon Pieters wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:36:25 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote: > > > Is this something that's really needed for web compatibility though? > > Probably not. > > > > Creating a DOM with multiple <body>s is hard since the parser will > > never output such a DOM. Instead you have to manually set up such a > > DOM using DOM methods, something that I'd expect extremely few pages > > to do. > > > > I don't have a strong opinion either way on this, I think we should go > > with whatever's simplest to implement, but I don't know what that is. > > "The body element" is the first (if any) <body> or <fieldset> child of the > root <html>. I don't know what's simpler to implement, but the spec now > matches at least Opera, Firefox and Safari (haven't tested IE). I concurr with Simon, in that matching implementations here seems best; it seems likely that it's easier for implementations not to change... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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