8938 2010-02-10 11:12:18 +0000 We should explicitly say that using document.write after a document has been fully parsed results in the document being replaced. It's currently implicit in "calls the open() method implicitly first" but it would be nice to be clearer 2010-10-04 14:49:18 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#document.write() P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 31724 0 contributor 2010-02-10 11:12:18 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#document.write() Comment: We should explicitly say that using document.write after a document has been fully parsed results in the document being replaced. It's currently implicit in "calls the open() method implicitly first" but it would be nice to be clearer Posted from: 64.134.222.102 32234 1 ian 2010-02-17 08:46:32 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. 32235 2 contributor 2010-02-17 08:48:56 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r4755. Check-in comment: Mention the document.open() magic in document.write()'s domintro. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4754&to=4755