[whatwg] DOM3 Load and Save for simple parsing/serialization?

[Michael A. Puls II]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:49:08 -0400, Brett Zamir <brettz9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----
>
>> From: Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>
>> To: Brett Zamir <brettz9 at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: whatwg at whatwg.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:48:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: [whatwg] DOM3 Load and Save for simple  
>> parsing/serialization?
>>
>> On Mon, 18 May 2009, Brett Zamir wrote:
>>>
>>> Has any thought been given to standardizing on at least a part of DOM
>>> Level 3 Load and Save in HTML5?
>>
>> DOM3 Load and Save is already standardised as far as I can tell. I don't
>> see why HTML5 would have to say anything about it.
> The hope was that there would be some added impetus to have browsers  
> settle on a standard way of doing this, since to my knowledge, it looks  
> to me like only Opera has implemented DOM Level 3 L&S

Opera's implementation is buggy. The async version never fires a load  
event, handling of errors is all messed up and some functions don't work.  
It's pretty much useless except for synchronous loading in perfect  
conditions.

It seems that everyone wants DOM3 L&S to die and to have everyone use JS  
to make their own wrapper around XHR + DOMParser + XMLSerializer etc. to  
do what DOM3 L&S does.

-- 
Michael