Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Adding methods like getElementById and getElementsByTagName to DocumentFragments from Boris Zbarsky on 2013-09-06 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from September 2013)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 10:42:47 -0400
To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
Message-ID: <5229E9E7.3040404@mit.edu>

On 9/6/13 8:20 AM, Simon Pieters wrote:
> So the use case is getting an element by id with an "untrusted" id as
> input, in an element or document fragment as opposed to the document?

Or getting elements by tag name in a document fragment, for that matter 
(though "weird" chars in tag names are harder to produce; largely 
limited to leading digits).

-Boris

Received on Friday, 6 September 2013 14:43:21 UTC