[whatwg] external SCRIPT removal; Setting "parser inserted" to false

Garrett Smith dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 12:46:39 PST 2010


On 11/17/10, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote:
>> HTML 5 should specify what happens when a script is removed from the
>> DOM.
>
> I believe it already does. It doesn't say anything about it, so removal has
> no effect. I believe Gecko already complies.

It does but stopping the script, as seen in Opera, seems useful for
the commonly used dynamic script insertion strategies.

Garrett



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