[sergeykish]

So `.setHTML("<script>...</script>")` does not set HTML?

[xp84]

Sounds reasonable enough to me. 99.99% of the times you’re in an actual script, if you mean to execute code, you’d just execute it yourself, rather than making a script tag full of code and sticking that tag into a random DOM element. That’s why the default wouldn’t honor the script tag and there’d be an “unsafe” method explicitly named as such to hint you that you’re doing something weird.

[amelius]

But it breaks an abstraction. Sometimes you just want to take working HTML and insert it into a document. It will be painful if suddenly this does not work, and you have to dig into the documentation to see why.

[WA]

Neither does

    .innerHTML = "<script>...</script>"