- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:11:07 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Hallvord R M Steen 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 :-) . As far as I can tell, the parser covers this. There's no need for more magic. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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