On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:36:25 +0200, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote:
Is this something that's really needed for web compatibility though?
Probably not.
Creating a DOM with multiple <body>s is hard since the parser will never output such a DOM. Instead you have to manually set up such a DOM using DOM methods, something that I'd expect extremely few pages to do. I don't have a strong opinion either way on this, I think we should go with whatever's simplest to implement, but I don't know what that is.
"The body element" is the first (if any) <body> or <fieldset> child of the root <html>. I don't know what's simpler to implement, but the spec now matches at least Opera, Firefox and Safari (haven't tested IE).
-- Simon Pieters Opera Software
