For HTML elements in HTML documents, why is Element.localName uppercased for tag names and lowercased for attribute names? I wouldn't expect it to, and it makes it harder to write scripts that work for both HTML and XHTML. For example, if you want a script to work in both legacy HTML UAs and HTML5 UAs as well as in XHTML, you may want to do something like if ((elm.tagName == "A" && !elm.namespaceURI) || (elm.localName == "a" && elm.namespaceURI == "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";)) to check that a given element is an HTML "a" element.

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Simon Pieters

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