15350 2011-12-27 20:25:43 +0000 Range.insertNode() into the middle of a comment 2011-12-28 17:15:17 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG DOM unspecified All All RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 ayg annevk mike www-dom public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 62060 0 ayg 2011-12-27 20:25:43 +0000 Test-case: data:text/html,<!DOCTYPE html> <script> var range = document.createRange(); document.head.appendChild(document.createComment("abc")); range.setStart(document.head.lastChild, 2); range.insertNode(document.createTextNode("def")); </script> Firefox 12.0a1 and Chrome 17 dev throw HierarchyRequestError. Opera Next 12.00 alpha splits the comment node, like def. I don't have IE handy to test -- could someone tell me what it does? The spec says to insert the new text node immediately before the comment node, so you get something like def. Throwing seems much saner than what the spec says. is there any reason not to change the spec to require that, like Gecko/WebKit (and maybe IE too for all I know)? I don't know why I specced it this way to start with . . . 62092 1 annevk 2011-12-28 09:25:23 +0000 IE9 throws an exception too (the same). 62106 2 ayg 2011-12-28 17:15:17 +0000 Thanks for verifying. http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/domcore/rev/2bab24def8d9 http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webapps/rev/0bb9d2672bdd