Show HN: TopLevel – A New Way to JavaScript Your HTML

Re:Show HN: TopLevel – A New Way to JavaScript Your HTML by kristopolous on Thursday June 05, 2014 @01:57AM (#7850439)

The only other way I know to break the interpreter is if you force a bad character encoding of a different bit width.

I have yet to get it working as reliably across the same wide range of browsers.

As far as it disappearing; In order for that to happen one browser group will have to take the first step of intentionally breaking legacy webpages - it seems antithetical to the "render as much as possible" features arm-race nature of the browser world.

Then again, I've been wrong plenty of times before.

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Re:Show HN: TopLevel – A New Way to JavaScript Your HTML by user24 on Thursday June 05, 2014 @03:05AM (#7850607)

Could a textarea tag work too?

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Re:Show HN: TopLevel – A New Way to JavaScript Your HTML by kristopolous on Thursday June 05, 2014 @03:27AM (#7850659)

not if the document has an existing <textarea> (and thus </textarea>). <plaintext> is rather final ... see here for a demo I just threw together: http://getpostdelete.com/plaintext.html

The HTML interpreter packs up its bags and goes home - you can't "close" a <plaintext> tag if it's existing in a plain HTML page.

However, you can still manipulate it through the DOM.

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Re:Show HN: TopLevel – A New Way to JavaScript Your HTML by user24 on Friday June 06, 2014 @02:21AM (#7856435)

Yeah I sort of realised that as I said it. Hmm.

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