- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:45:14 +0000
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > 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? Because given a random XML MIME type it might end up needing methods from any given special-case document object (you don't know what content you'll have). I suppose we could try to restrict some of the esoteric stuff to only certain objects though... -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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