240304 - select add method and IE6 compatibility

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Milos]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

It would be nice to have in some way compatibility with IE6 for
HTMLSelectElement and Add method. I know that Mozilla has implementation by DOM2
which is 
void Add(in HTMLElement element, in HTMLElement before), but IE6 does not have
that. It has something like void Add(element[, indexBefore]) instead.
Is there a way that you can change decalaration of Add method to somethnig more
IE6 compatibile like: 

Add(in HTMLElement element[, in HTMLElement before])

That will not break DOM2 compatibility!? 


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Actually, it will....  Further, this is a frozen embedding interface, so it can
no longer change.  Sad, but that is life.

Comment 2

[Milos]

Sad is that Mozilla based browsers will not be widely accepted by users. 

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