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

[Simon Pieters]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:15:05 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> What are the places you see us as adding this in?

So the concepts discussed here are probably a bit confusing if one doesn't  
know what the spec terms mean. Let's list concrete cases and see what we  
want to do with each one.

In a browsing context:

* text/html document (uses interface "Document" and is an "HTML document")
* XML document (uses interface "Document" and is an "XML document")

Not in a browsing context:

* document.implementation.createDocument() (uses interface "XMLDocument"  
and is an "XML document")
* document.implementation.createHTMLDocument() (uses interface "Document"  
and is an "HTML document")
* new Document() (uses interface "Document" and is an "XML document")
* XHR response (uses interface "Document" and is an "XML document", even  
for text/html if I read the spec correctly)


For instance the createHTMLDocument() case currently supports named getter  
in Gecko but not in Blink.
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/2519

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software