On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Olli Pettay <olli.pet...@helsinki.fi> wrote: > On 04/27/2011 09:13 PM, Erik Arvidsson wrote: >> 1. We want<template> to be able to contain arbitrary content that is >> used as the content of the instances that are created from it. Now >> assume that the template element contains some active content such as >> <audio autoplay>, script or simply just an image. We don't want the >> audio to start playing, we don't want the script to run inside the >> template element and we don't want the image to be requested at this >> point. > > <audio> works even if it is not in document, and so > does <img>. > But I see the problem you're trying to avoid.
Yeah, we basically just want the actual nodes inside of <template> to be "dead", since their only purpose is to be cloned when you create "real" DOM from the template. How precisely this is accomplished is more-or-less irrelevant at this point. ~TJ