- From: Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:34:24 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 10/29/12 8:58 PM, Johan Sundström wrote: > >> Serializing a complete HTML document DOM to a string is surprisingly >> hard in javascript. >> > > I thought there were plans to put innerHTML on Document. Did that go > nowhere? There were plans to put in on DocumentFragment. But IIRC no other browser vendors voiced an interest and Hixie was opposed because he thought it would encourage people to do more string-based DOM building. The WebKit patch for this floundered as a result. I still think it's a good idea.
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