[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 36465] window.Document !== window.XMLDocument

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36465





--- Comment #23 from Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>  2010-03-23 14:14:16 PST ---
The Firefox document hierarchy looks and feels obsolete since HTML elements
became the same as XHTML ones in DOM. I don't think XMLDocument a reasonable
thing to expose now.

> (B) proven compatibility with web content for the better part of a decade.

This is true to some extent, but matching other browsers has been also known to
introduce unexpected compatibility problems due to enabling different code
paths. E.g., document.all had an even better historical compatibility story,
but there was no way we could enable it without making it undetectable.

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