On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Rafael Weinstein <[email protected]> wrote: > Why is it useful to go to trouble of doing > document.implementation.createHTMLDocument('foo').createElement('img') > and have that fetch? The opposite seems true to me. It seems useful > that there's a way to create elements which explicitly are inactive. > It creates a safe playground to assemble DOM without worrying about > intermediate states triggering externally visible effects.
Yeah sure, I'm not opposed to that. But that seems like a somewhat bigger change, no? E.g. then you would also change <a>.click() be a no-op I suppose? Or <form>.submit(). Not just img.src has side effects. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
