[whatwg] HTMLDocument.title and SVGDocument

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Jun 4 22:33:52 PDT 2007


On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> >
> > I basically see two options: HTMLDocument.title always wins, and you 
> > can get the other one using getFeature(), or, they both get redefined 
> > to check the root element and dispatch to the other one if 
> > appropriate. Suggestions?
> 
> I like the "check the root element" option. That way, one could use the 
> exact same Document object implementation for SVG and XHTML, while 
> remaining compatible with expected behavior for existing content in both 
> languages. Compound documents where both the HTML and the SVG have a 
> title are possible, but that seems obscure enough that a special DOM API 
> to get both titles is probably unnecessary.

On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> Even in that case only one title can be the document title.

On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
> If we define which is the document title in such cases than both 
> HTMLDocument and SVGDocument returning that seems better than separate 
> results.

Done.

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