[whatwg] input element's value should not be sanitized during parsing

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
> The problem, if I understand things correctly, is that setAttribute is 
> *not* order agnostic, while the parsing code is expected to be. This 
> means that we can't use the same code paths for setAttribute and 
> parsing.

You can, you just have to have a special "initialisation" signal that the 
parser sends to an element after its set its attributes.


> This is not acceptable to us in Gecko. We're not willing to have two 
> code paths for setting attributes.

You already _have_ two code paths. The example you gave shows that the 
parser is order agnostic but the equivalent DOM code is not.

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