- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:14:08 +0200
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:02:58 +0200, Hallvord R M Steen <hallvors at gmail.com> wrote: > You might think so. However, as Michael stated above Opera used to do > this, and it broke a number of websites that expected > documentElement.firstChild to be <HEAD> no matter what the actual > markup looked like. So we had to implement a somewhat magic firstChild > on documentElement and I expect other browsers had to too (as your > testing seems to confirm, more or less). Which reminds me, this > peculiarity should possibly be documented in HTML5 :-) . This is only about what happens during parsing right? I.e. if you create a DOM with a text node there firstChild would get it as expected. I think that is already covered. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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