117342 - deep parameter for cloneNode is mandatory

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Documentation Graveyard :: Web Developer, defect)

Description

[Nemat Rakhmatov]

documentation on cloneNode uses []'s for parameter 'deep', so making it not
mandatory parameter. []'s should be removed, according to w3c spec.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

True, although ECMAScript has rules for filling in omitted parameters and rules
for type conversion that might lead to a de-facto default (probably false) existing.

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Even in ECMAScript all arguments defined in the DOM spec need to be passed in,
at least in mozilla, and there's been discussion in the DOM WG about certain
cases where it would make sense to default some arguments, but so far it's
always been decided that the arguments do need to be passed in, in all cases.

Comment 3

[Fabian Guisset]

Reassigning to Ian then so that he can remove the [] around the boolean, since
it's required in Mozilla.

Comment 4

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Accepting. Fixed this in the docs. It'll be in the next rev of the domref, some
time in the next couple of days.

Comment 5

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Marking FIXED.

Comment 6

[Daniel Wang]

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