On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Thu, 10 May 2012, Scott González wrote: > > Why is simplicity not enough of an answer? > > It's a fine answer. But I don't think magical APIs are simple. Simplicity > in this case IMHO argues for explicitly selected context. >
I don't think authors think like that. Most of them don't even understand that they need a context element to parse a HTML fragment. They just want an API that's simple and do reasonable things in most cases. IMO, it's okay for edge cases to be weird as long as we agree on one behavior. - Ryosuke
