- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:49:47 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Olli@pettay.fi
- Cc: whatwg List <whatwg@whatwg.org>, www-dom@w3.org
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > Gecko currently looks at the doctype passed to createDocument() in order to > decide what interfaces to offer on the returned document and in order to > determine if the HTMLness bit gets set. All interfaces should be supported, per HTML5. The bit should not be set, per HTML5. > DOM Level 3 Core mentions that DOM Level 2 HTML specifies a method > called createHTMLDocument(). I see such a method in DOM Level 2 HTML CR > http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-DOM-Level-2-20000510/html.html but I don't > see it in the REC http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html. Gecko > doesn't implement this method but Opera and WebKit do. > > Is there a reason why HTML5 doesn't mention createHTMLDocument()? As you say, it wasn't in the DOM2 HTML REC. I'd rather not have it at all, if we don't need it. On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Olli Pettay wrote: > > The HTMLness wasn't implemented because of ACID3. It was implemented > because it was wanted that .createDocument() could return documents > which might get created in other ways too (like loading a page). So it > is possible to create svg/html/xhtml/etc documents. That's the interface, but why the HTMLness bit? (Affects things like document.write().) Unless there's a good use case, I would suggest we don't add a way to create such documents just for the sake of it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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