[whatwg] Proposal: Add HTMLElement.innerText

[Mihai Parparita]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org> wrote:
> actually a useful and needed feature, we should hear it. Or if someone from
> Webkit or Opera wants to explain why they added it, that would be useful
> too.

FWIW, WebKit has supported innerText since at least when it branched
from KHTML (so most likely KHTML implemented it even before then):

http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/WebCore/khtml/dom/html_element.cpp?rev=4#L157

Mihai