On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:30:20PM -0400, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 4/29/12 11:24 PM, David Young wrote: > >It seems that the text contents of a<textarea>, at least, could be > >properly in the DOM? > > Not really: when you type in a textarea, that doesn't change its > actual DOM kids. Both per spec, and in UAs, and web content depends > on this.
I guess that <textarea> has worked this way for a very long time, so changing it may not be possible. I'm curious to see examples of which/how web content depends on it? Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.com Urbana, IL (217) 721-9981