Re: Change DocumentType on a loaded Document

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On Jan 24, 11:25 pm, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:

> If you're doing the append as a single AppendChild() on the root node, that
> should be all the batching you want, no?
>

Logically yes. But there is some problem if I replace the <html> in a
document. The scroll bars will stop to work. So I reuse <html>,<head>
and <body> nodes (they were all created when "about:blank" was
loaded), which makes it not a simple swap. I will try
nsIContentViewer. It looks promising.


>
> > I also encounter one other problem in this process. Mozilla does not
> > appear to take the <base> I set in the <head> of the DOM
>
> That's correct.  <base> is handled at parse-time.  There's a bug on this, as I
> recall.
>

ok, guess I have to continue with my workaround. Do you happen to know
if this bug will be fixed in 1.9?

As always, thanks a lot for your help.
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