Re: [whatwg] a element and .text
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Olli Pettay wrote: I wonder why a element should have .text which is basically just the same thing as .textContent. I'd prefer removing .text. I'm happy to remove it if we can for compat. On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Jonas Sicking wrote: I say lets remove it from gecko and see if it breaks any sites. Any news on this? On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Olli Pettay wrote: I was referring to html5 draft, which specifies that .text should be the same as .textContent. But sure, the reason why gecko has .text is backwards compatibility with Netscape 4. Netscape 4 .text isn't the same as .textContent. Is it different enough that we should change the spec for compat? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
Re: [whatwg] a element and .text
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Olli Pettay olli.pet...@helsinki.fi wrote: Hi all, I wonder why a element should have .text which is basically just the same thing as .textContent. I'd prefer removing .text. It's actually worse, see http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/content/html/content/src/nsHTMLAnchorElement.cpp#367 Yes, I'd strongly prefer to remove that too. I say lets remove it from gecko and see if it breaks any sites. / Jonas
Re: [whatwg] a element and .text
On 6/21/10 9:25 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Olli Pettayolli.pet...@helsinki.fi wrote: Hi all, I wonder why a element should have .text which is basically just the same thing as .textContent. I'd prefer removing .text. It's actually worse, see http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/content/html/content/src/nsHTMLAnchorElement.cpp#367 Yes, I'd strongly prefer to remove that too. I say lets remove it from gecko and see if it breaks any sites. / Jonas I was referring to html5 draft, which specifies that .text should be the same as .textContent. But sure, the reason why gecko has .text is backwards compatibility with Netscape 4. Netscape 4 .text isn't the same as .textContent. -Olli
Re: [whatwg] a element and .text
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Olli Pettay olli.pet...@helsinki.fi wrote: On 6/21/10 9:25 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Olli Pettayolli.pet...@helsinki.fi wrote: Hi all, I wonder why a element should have .text which is basically just the same thing as .textContent. I'd prefer removing .text. It's actually worse, see http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/content/html/content/src/nsHTMLAnchorElement.cpp#367 Yes, I'd strongly prefer to remove that too. I say lets remove it from gecko and see if it breaks any sites. / Jonas I was referring to html5 draft, which specifies that .text should be the same as .textContent. But sure, the reason why gecko has .text is backwards compatibility with Netscape 4. Netscape 4 .text isn't the same as .textContent. Indeed, my point was that I think we should just go ahead and make the change in Firefox and we can use information from that test as basis for changing the spec. / Jonas
