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Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-a-element Comment: option . text: c/p'd too much; also add a line in the IDL [ms] Posted from: 91.180.142.166
And HTMLAnchorElement.text is readonly.
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r4679. Check-in comment: Correct the xrefs and update the IDL. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4678&to=4679
2 out of 3 implementations (Gecko and WebKit) implement it as readonly, so I think changing that isn't going to make implementing easier, rather to the contrary.
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