On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Eric Seidel <e...@webkit.org> wrote:
> My understanding is that a name collision would only affect the > ability of existing software to use the new Path. It would not break > existing software. window.Path would just be aliased by the page, no? > > Nope, if someone had <input id="Path"> previously and accessed it as just "Path", we'll break their page because now Path is this canvas object, not the HTMLInputElement. Intuitively I feel like using the ID of "Path" can't be that uncommon, and accessing ids like this was fairly common in a number of apps and code generators I've worked on... - E
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