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by jonathrg 240 days ago
Why? Does it not set the HTML?
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AlienRobot 240 days ago
There is already an innerHTML property for elements. This doesn't set the outer HTML, so it's literally setInnerHTML2.
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netsharc 240 days ago
It doesn't say "There's a lot of hidden sanitizing stuff inside this method" from the name...

Something like "setSafeHTML()" would be preferable. (Since it's Mozilla, there should be a few committee meetings to come up with the appropriate name)...

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hoppp 240 days ago
Well ,could it be safelySetHTML instead of setSafeHTML ?

The second one could imply the HTML is already safe while the first one is safe way to set html.

If it's just setHTML then it could imply that don't care if its safe or not.

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