- From: Markus Ernst <derernst@gmx.ch>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:58:09 +0200
Am 16.08.2010 11:23 schrieb Maciej Stachowiak: > > - Is it a genuinely useful feature? > Yes, the ability to get plaintext content as rendered is a useful > feature and annoying to implement from scratch. To give one very > marginal data point, it's used by our regression text framework to > output the plaintext version of a page, for tests where layout is > irrelevant. A more hypothetical use would be a rich text editor that has > a "convert to plaintext" feature. textContent is not as useful for these > use cases, since it doesn't handle line breaks and unrendered whitespace > properly. Additionnally, from a humble author's POV, once you learnt that innerHTML is now available in the standard, it would be quite intuitive to also have innerText.
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