Blizzard fan art pages don't work because of lack of Document.load

• Component: DOM
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Darin Adler]

The Blizzard fan art pages seem to have been recently updated. The page at <http://www.blizzard.com/inblizz/fanart/ScreenShot.shtml> fails with a JavaScript exception.

There's a function call importXML:

function importXML()
{ 

	if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument)
	{
		xmlDoc = document.implementation.createDocument("", "", null);
		xmlDoc.onload = addEntries;
	}
	else if (window.ActiveXObject)
	{
		xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
		xmlDoc.onreadystatechange = function () {
			if (xmlDoc.readyState == 4) addEntries()
		};
 	}
	else
	{
		alert('Your browser can\'t handle this script');
		return;
	}
	xmlDoc.load("Web.xml");
}

I'd normally expect to see something like this done with XMLHttpRequest.

[Darin Adler]

Annoying. I use this website a lot.

[Darin Adler]

<rdar://problem/5438730>

[Dave Hyatt]

We really need to support document.load.  It's standard DOM 3.

[Dave Hyatt]

But yeah, the site could easily use XMLHttpRequest and work everywhere.

[Darin Adler]

(In reply to comment #3)
> We really need to support document.load. It's standard DOM 3.

I decided to look this up in DOM 3, and I couldn't find it.

What I found for load and save was this: <http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-LS/>. It seems to me like a simple "load" function on Document is not part of it. Instead the function is called createLSParser. Am I missing something? Where's the plain old "load" for Document?

I'm getting the impression that this is not DOM 3 load at all, but rather something else that's implemented by Gecko.

[Sam Weinig]

I believe it was in DOM 3 L/S at one point, but has since been removed.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

See also: bug 9063.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> See also: bug 9063.

And:
Bug 5411
Bug 14518
Bug 14589

[Darin Adler]

The Blizzard folks fixed this. Thanks guys!

[Lucas Forschler]

Mass moving XML DOM bugs to the "DOM" Component.