[whatwg] Should script run if it comes from a HTML fragment?

Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi
Thu Feb 10 06:14:12 PST 2011


> * innerHTML doesn't run scripts and they are inserted disabled.

FWIW, here's a counter-example:
http://www.oele.net/innerhtmljs2.html

The above runs the script in all browsers except Firefox 4 (which follows the spec). The pattern is reportedly from the http://crossbrowserajax.com/ library.

However, http://www.oele.net/innerhtmljs.html doesn't run in IE9 PP7.

I'm not thrilled about adding code to support this quirky pattern at this point of the release cycle (evang is being attempted), but I thought I'd mention this finding even though I'm not asking for a spec change (at least not yet).

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Henri Sivonen
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