[whatwg] [html5] Attaching option elements to select elements in different documents

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Mar 4, 2010, at 2:27 AM, Stewart Brodie wrote:

> Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> On 3/3/10 12:11 PM, Stewart Brodie wrote:
>>> As far as I can tell, this affects: HTMLSelectElement.add(),
>>> HTMLOptionsCollection.add(), Node.appendChild(), Node.replaceChild 
>>> (),
>>> Node.insertBefore().
>>
>> Is it option-specific, though?  Last I checked, various browsers
>> implicitly adopted on append/insert/replace, period.
>
> Since when?  I was sure that they didn't used to do this.  DOM Core is
> extremely clear on this issue (both in level 2 and level 3).  You  
> appear to
> be correct: Firefox and Opera both just ignore the standard and get  
> this
> wrong.  Chrome just seems to get confused.

In WebKit, we originally implemented the rule required by the DOM  
spec, but found that was insufficiently compatible with the Web. Below  
see our current rule. I think this should be errata'd in the DOM to  
give a more reasonable behavior.

     // WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if newChild was created from a  
different document than the one that
     // created this node.
     // We assume that if newChild is a DocumentFragment, all children  
are created from the same document
     // as the fragment itself (otherwise they could not have been  
added as children)
     if (newChild->document() != document()) {
         // but if the child is not in a document yet then loosen the
         // restriction, so that e.g. creating an element with the  
Option()
         // constructor and then adding it to a different document  
works,
         // as it does in Mozilla and Mac IE.
         if (!newChild->inDocument()) {
             shouldAdoptChild = true;
         } else {
             ec = WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR;
             return;
         }
     }