Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:58:29 +0200, Jonas Sicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Given that behavior is so different in different UAs, it seems
unlikely that a lot of sites depend on IEs behavior. So I suggest not
matching what IE does.
What exactly is the problem? For image maps you can't use
getElementById() anyway as you have to check both id= and name=. To keep
behavior the same between HTML quirks, HTML standards and XML doing a
case-insensitive match makes some sense.
Why can't you keep ids case sensitive always for all those? Seems weird
from a user perspective that ids are case sensitive in all cases except
this one.
In gecko we keep a hash for id->element which is case sensitive. This
hash is used for the implementation of getElementById, anchor scrolling,
and anything else that uses ids.
We also have a hash for name->element which is case insensitive, this
hash is used for things like form.elements.foo and document.foo and
anything else that uses names.
What you suggest is to add a third hash for id->element which would be
case insensitive and only used for <map>s.
/ Jonas
