On Sep 17, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Adam Barth wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: > >> It might be nice to provide the parts of this that make sense on >> HTMLAnchorElement and Location, then see if a new interface really pulls its >> weight. > > Another piece of functionality that's missing from HTMLAnchorElement > is the automatic stringification of URL objects. That lets you pass > URL objects into APIs that expect URLs represented as strings. It's > unlikely that we'd want to add that part of the interface to > HTMLAnchorElement.
That does not match my recollection or testing: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0A%3Cbody%3E%0A%3Ca%20href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fsome-domain.com%2Fsome%2Fpath%23frag%22%20id%3Dtest%3E%3C%2Fa%3E%0A%3Cscript%3E%0Adocument.write(document.getElementById(%22test%22))%3B%0A%3C%2Fscript%3E Good point about the Worker use case where there is no DOM. Regards, Maciej