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

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:05:13 +0100, Stewart Brodie  
<stewart.brodie at antplc.com> wrote:
> Is this documented anywhere?

On some W3C mailing list archive I think.


> By "compatibility problems", presumably you
> mean bugs in Firefox that were then exploited by content authors who  
> didn't know better?   From Maciej's description of WebKit's behaviour,  
> it looks
> like either they didn't know about this consensus or they didn't  
> implement it compatibly.

I forgot the details.


> This definitely needs to be documented in HTML5.

It seems it should be specified in the new version of DOM Core.


> Are there any more retrospective changes to fundamental behaviour  
> specified in DOM Core in the pipeline that I need to know about?  I  
> already know about the one in DOM Event about capturing listeners being  
> called in the target
> phase.

Well, features that are not implemented are planned to be dropped. Don't  
recall anything else right now.


> That leaves the issue of how adoptNode() affects the [[Prototype]] of the
> node objects, which is currently inconsistent between desktop browsers.
> Opera & Chrome agree with each other (that the [[Prototype]] is  
> unchanged);
> Firefox disagrees (it changes the [[Prototype]] to be that it would have
> been if the node had been created anew in the destination document).


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