DOMImplementation.prototype.createDocument

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DOMImplementation.prototype.createDocument

Opened this issue 12 years ago · 4 comments

brettz9 commented 12 years ago

IE does NOT support createDocument.

Here's my shot at it: https://gist.github.com/4274369 . Haven't hooked into your createDocumentType though.

Answer 1 · 2012-12-13T06:26:52.000Z

This project is kind of abandoned.

It actually turns out that shimming is bad idea

Answer 2 · 2012-12-13T07:45:17.000Z

You mean partial shimming which can lead to unexpected usage or shimming big and bad complex systems like the entire DOM and causing performance problems?

Answer 3 · 2012-12-13T07:51:19.000Z

partial shimming.

It's easier and better to wrap things.

I also stopped caring about support IE8

Answer 4 · 2012-12-13T08:01:20.000Z

I can see how it is easier to wrap, but not sure how better (unless say trying to avoid standards bodies/browsers arbitrarily DROPPING features which unfortunately is still happening on occasion today). I think it is quite compelling to write code which leverages developers' knowledge (or teaches them standard vocabulary) without adding more steps to trace through code. One thing I didn't like with shims is that there had not been a good potentially universal way to define dependencies on them from within modules such that one could avoid loading/including the shim files except when needed (and non-redundantly). I am hopeful that https://github.com/brettz9/shim/ could offer a way (nevermind the heavy top level directory--i need to clean that up--only require.js and shim.js or shims.js is needed).