[whatwg] Issues concerning the <base> element and xml:base

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:50:09 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com>  
wrote:
> Moving nodes between documents is not allowed by the DOM. Technically  
> you are supposed to use importNode, which makes a copy. Firefox  
> currently allows it in some cases, and Safari does too in a possibly  
> different subset of cases for compatibility with the Firefox behavior on  
> some "enterprise" web apps. It is also not a common practice, so far as  
> I know. Given fixes to one or two key apps that are popular in intranet  
> deployment, this extension could probably be removed.

It's at least common enough for Firefox 3 not to fix its behavior (which  
is fine by me, the restriction on moving nodes doesn't make much sense).  
I'd expect it to be used with XMLHttpRequest for instance.


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