Re: [DOM4] Mutation algorithm imposed order on document children

IE9 _does_ expose the doctype node. It's IE8 that doesn't but I've ignored
that case.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good question, I assume you mean new
>> XMLSerializer().serializeToString(document)?
>>
>> FF: Correct order because it forces it on you.
>> Webkit: Doctype printed out of order.
>> IE9: Doctype always printed in order.
>> Opera: Doesn't ever print the doctype. But is the only one to print the
>> XML prolog.
>>
>> IE9's behavior seems the most sane here since it makes sure the
>> serialization is valid in the face of developer error similar to
>> serializing the parsed result of <b><a></b></a>.
>>
>
> However, it'll be odd if the order in which nodes appear in DOM and the
> order in which they appear in the markup differ. From what you've described
> so far, it's okay for IE9 to do this because it doesn't expose DocType
> node. I'm not certain it makes sense for us to do the same in the world
> where we expose DocType nodes.
>
> - Ryosuke
>
>