[whatwg] Why are we merging Document and HTMLDocument again?

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
• Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:38:56 -0500
• To: whatwg <whatwg@whatwg.org>
• Message-ID: <51361FA0.8070101@mit.edu>

I'm trying to understand why Document and HTMLDocument got merged.  In 
practice, UAs don't do that, and doing it imposes a performance penalty 
on manipulating, say, XMLHttpRequest response documents (because the 
name getter on HTMLDocument makes property access slower on that object).

So why are we doing this?

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 5 March 2013 16:39:44 UTC