[whatwg] Introducing new elements is expensive

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote:
> > 
> > Elements inside <output> are rendered as elements, with all that that 
> > implies; there is no special parsing.
> 
> The contents of <output> are the initial value, yet they are not parsed.

By "no special parsing" I meant the parsing was the same as for, say, a 
<span>. i.e. normal HTML parsing rules apply.


> > > Since we can't avoid a difference in rendering unless we 
> > > artificially enforce a no-markup-inside-<output> rule, what does it 
> > > hurt to simply have a |value| attribute to set the .defaultvalue 
> > > directly?
> > 
> > The two things are separate. What's the use case for value=""?
> 
> Well, for one, in situations where you want to use <input readonly> as a 
> fallback container for a calculated value.

I don't really understand why you would both with <output> at all, in such 
a case, since <input readonly> would work fine in both legacy and WF2 UAs.

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