[whatwg] cloneNode and HTML elements

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

> On Sep 9, 2009, at 10:26 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>
>  If you call cloneNode on a media element, the state of the resulting media
>> element seems unspecified. Should it be playing the same media resource at
>> the same current time as the original?
>>
>> Similar questions arise when you clone form elements; is the state that's
>> not visible in the DOM cloned?
>>
>> Who should be responsible for defining this?
>>
>
> Does cloneNode require copying any state besides an element's qualified
> name, attributes and DOM children? The definition in DOM3Core doesn't say
> anything else should be copied. Is form control state (such as set of items
> selected in a <list multiple>) copied?
>
> Reference for cloneNode:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#ID-3A0ED0A4
>
> My assumption based on the spec is that no element-specific internal state
> should be copied, the cloning should only be DOM-wise.
>

It's not obvious to me that DOM 3 Core's silence means nothing else is
copied, since non-DOM state is outside its scope.

I wonder if authors would be surprised if the non-DOM state is not copied.

Rob
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