Re: The intersection of scripting and the use element

On 11/8/10 11:31 PM, G. Wade Johnson wrote:
>> No, that's the general behavior for situations in which scripting is
>> disabled: the script does not run but _is_ marked as having executed
>> so cloning it and inserting it elsewhere won't run it.  You can test
>> this with, say, XMLHttpRequest where the responseXML includes
>> <script>  elements.
>
> Okay. That makes sense. But, it still brings me back to my real
> questions. Is this behavior guaranteed by the specs, or is it an
> implementation artifact?

It started as the latter and is moving towards the former, now that we 
actually _have_ specs that are trying to cover that ground (e.g. HTML5).

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 9 November 2010 04:33:52 UTC