[whatwg] innerHTML for HTML and <plaintext>

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:26:57 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> > > On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:57:07 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > The section "If the child node is a Text or CDATASection node"
> > > > > should include the <plaintext> element.
> > > > 
> > > > <plaintext> in general isn't supported by the innerHTML spec -- for
> > > > example, it would always introduce a new </plaintext> element. Is that
> > > > a problem?
> > > 
> > > Yeah, the way the contents of a <plaintext> element node are returned
> > > has given Opera at least one interop issue.
> > 
> > What did you settle on for the implementation? I don't really know how I
> > can fix this, given that it is trivial for the <plaintext> element not to
> > be the last element in the DOM.
> 
> <plaintext> needs to be added to the list of elements the serialization
> algorithm for Text and CDATASection nodes. That is, its contents should not be
> escaped but appended literally. This is basically about <plaintext>.innerHTML,
> not about any other issues <plaintext> introduces.

Ok. Fixed.

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