On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:24:29 +0200, Brett Zamir <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Regardless of any decision on whether my recommendation for > document.contentType to be standardized and made settable on a document > created by createDocument() (rather than needing to call the > less-than-intuitive doc.open() fix for HTML), I'd still like to > recommend standardizing on Mozilla's document.contentType ( > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/document.contentType ) for at least > being able to get the property. > > It can be very useful for JavaScript code or a generic library to offer > support for XHTML or HTML, such as conditionally calling > getElementsByTagNameNS() (feature detection will not help since a > document may still be in HTML even if the browser supports XHTML). In HTML5, HTML elements in text/html are put in the XHTML namespace and text/html might contain SVG or MathML elements, so you probably want to conditionally call getElementsByTagNameNS based on e.g. the root element's namespaceURI rather than the document's HTMLness. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
