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Bug 8591 - list document.html under DOM tree accessors?
Summary: list document.html under DOM tree accessors?
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview...
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Reported: 2010-01-03 18:59 UTC by Don Brutzman
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:56 UTC (History)
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Description Don Brutzman 2010-01-03 18:59:18 UTC 
3.1.4 DOM tree accessors

Should there be an inset box for

        document . html

similar to

        document . head

        etc.
Comment 1 Anne 2010-01-05 07:17:35 UTC 
I don't think this is needed. We already have document.documentElement.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-05 20:13:15 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale:

document.html isn't necessary, since document.documentElement already returns that.

We might want to do document.head one day, but the use cases for it aren't so compelling that we should add it now. Best to wait until the implementations of the new APIs have caught up with the spec.

(There's no inset box because the APIs in question currently don't exist.)
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-05 20:32:18 UTC 
Er, disregard what I said about document.head. I'd forgotten that we'd already added that. The rest holds.