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Bug 12565 - This section should clarify whether the following code should work: 'document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].setAttribute("manifest", "offline.manifest");'
Summary: This section should clarify whether the following code should work: 'document...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-04-28 05:13 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:02 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-04-28 05:13:00 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#offline

Comment:
This section should clarify whether the following code should work:
'document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].setAttribute("manifest",
"offline.manifest");'

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Comment 1 Ms2ger 2011-06-16 18:46:17 UTC 
> The manifest attribute only has an effect during the early stages of
> document load. Changing the attribute dynamically thus has no effect
> (and thus, no DOM API is provided for this attribute).
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:02:24 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1