Enable cross domain JS access to the spec

[kennyluck]

I was trying to find the right place to ask this, and I guess this is the right place.

Please enable cross domain JS access on the HTML LS spec. If it's not possible, can anyone provide me a link to the rationale?

Or is there a mirrored spec that allows cross domain access?

[kennyluck]

This is more of an issue of the Website. I don't know why the administrator posts it here.

[JAB Creations]

If you download the noscript extension for Firefox and visit caniuse.com you'll notice that the site will not work unless you allow a script to load from microsoft.com so technically you can use cross-domain JavaScript.

[zcorpan]

Do you mean add CORS headers to the spec so you can read it with XHR from another origin?

[kennyluck]

Do you mean add CORS headers to the spec so you can read it with XHR from another origin?

Yes, that's exactly what I want, but I thought I should state out "use cases" instead of solutions

Here are the use cases:

1. Allow authors to generate a list of terms defined in the spec by getElementsByTagName('dfn') as this is extremely useful for translating this spec.
2. Allow users to generate a caniuse.com like site on the fly (although the data from the infoboxes might not be as good)
...
(Other interesting mashups of the spec)

[zcorpan]

I suggest you discuss this with Hixie directly (either in #whatwg or by email, ian@hixie.ch)