Re: compatMode and the HTML parsing algorithm

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
• Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:32:34 -0400
• To: www-dom@w3.org
• Message-ID: <4E8B4332.3090107@mit.edu>

On 10/4/11 1:29 PM, David Flanagan wrote:
> My argument for fixing this is mainly an esthetic one. This is the only
> place in the HTML parsing algorithm that I am aware of where the parser
> manipulates the document in some way that cannot be done with the public
> API.

There are others, unless you mean "the Document object" when you say 
"the document".  Form associations cannot be set up with public API, for 
example.

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:33:06 UTC