On 07/13/2015 09:22 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Olli Pettay <o...@pettay.fi> wrote:
Well, this printing case would just clone the final flattened tree without
the original document knowing any cloning happened.
(scripts aren't suppose to run in Gecko's static clone documents, which
print preview on linux and Windows and printing use)
If one needs a special DOM tree for printing, beforeprint event should be
used to modify the DOM.
Sure, but you'd lose some stuff, e.g. <canvas>, and presumably custom
elements if they require copying some state, due to the cloning.
(Unless it's doing more than just cloning.)
Clone-for-printing takes a snapshot of canvas and animated images etc.
And what state from a custom element would be needed in static clone document?
If the state is there in original document, and the state is somehow affecting
layout, it should be
copied (well, not :focus/:active and such).
Anyhow, I see clone-for-printing very much an implementation detail, and
wouldn't be too worried about it here.
There is enough to worry with plain normal element.cloneNode(true); or
selection/range handling.
-Olli
