[whatwg] Proposal: Add HTMLElement.innerText

[Adam Barth]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Robert O'Callahan
<robert at ocallahan.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org>
> wrote:
>>  Wouldn't you consider the interoperability benefits to the Web platform?
>
> Not to mention the benefit of simplifying the platform a tiny bit by
> removing a feature which mostly duplicates another much more well-known
> feature.

I'm all for interoperability, but who's going to twist Microsoft's arm
to remove the feature from IE?

As far as simplifying the platform, innerText is but one grain of sand
on the beach.

Adam