- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:32:32 -0700
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay at helsinki.fi> wrote: > On 6/21/10 9:25 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Olli Pettay<Olli.Pettay at helsinki.fi> >> ?wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I wonder why a element should have .text which >>> is basically just the same thing as >>> .textContent. >>> >>> I'd prefer removing .text. >> >> It's actually worse, see >> >> >> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/content/html/content/src/nsHTMLAnchorElement.cpp#367 >> >> Yes, I'd strongly prefer to remove that too. I say lets remove it from >> gecko and see if it breaks any sites. >> >> / Jonas >> > > I was referring to html5 draft, which specifies that .text > should be the same as .textContent. > But sure, the reason why gecko has .text is backwards compatibility > with Netscape 4. Netscape 4 .text isn't the same as .textContent. Indeed, my point was that I think we should just go ahead and make the change in Firefox and we can use information from that test as basis for changing the spec. / Jonas
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