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Bug 15113 - "Document" could have a pointer to the "Documents in the DOM" section (the partial Document interface) so that it's possible to find what was previously the HTMLDocument interface by following xrefs
Summary: "Document" could have a pointer to the "Documents in the DOM" section (the pa...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-12-08 14:17 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:42 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-12-08 14:17:35 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#document
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#document

Comment:
"Document" could have a pointer to the "Documents in the DOM" section (the
partial Document interface) so that it's possible to find what was previously
the HTMLDocument interface by following xrefs

Posted from: 2001:4c28:a030:30:223:32ff:fec2:96fa by simonp@opera.com
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.0 Safari/535.11
Comment 1 Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu 2011-12-08 14:55:30 UTC 
A big +1 to this proposal or anything that will make the #document link more useful. Oh, since the editor doesn't like "+1"-like comments. Here's data about the ten most used fragment identifiers in HTML LS:

document -> 690
phrasing-content -> 320
the-input-element -> 313
browsing-context -> 313
htmlelement -> 277
media-element -> 273
flow-content -> 273
function -> 271
parse-error -> 237
global-attributes -> 209

Notice that #document occurs twice often as the second and it's usefulness should really be guaranteed.
Comment 2 Simon Pieters 2011-12-08 15:03:01 UTC 
Maybe we could even put the <dfn> in the right section, and have a note there saying that it's actually defined in DOM Core with a link to the dependencies section. That would save a click.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-12-09 22:56:30 UTC 
Thanks for the data, that's a very convincing argument!