[whatwg] Why are we merging Document and HTMLDocument again?

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri Jul 12 10:57:55 PDT 2013


On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
> > On 3/5/13 3:30 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> >> I'd be fine with having a Document descendant that is used for 
> >> Documents that have global scopes / browsing contexts / the works, 
> >> and one that is used for Documents that don't (e.g. createDocument(), 
> >> XHR); would that address this issue?
> >
> > It's one way to address it, yes...
> 
> Just to be clear, this works for Mozilla, as long as it's clearly 
> defined and other vendors are on board. Arv?

Having not heard any interest from anyone else, I haven't done anything. 
If there's movement here, let me know.

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