On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Calogero Alex Baldacchino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Garrett Smith ha scritto: >> >> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Calogero Alex Baldacchino >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Simon Pieters ha scritto: >>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:19:04 +0100, Calogero Alex Baldacchino >>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> [...] >>>>> >>>> >>>> (I'm currently the editor of that proposal, currently located at >>>> http://simon.html5.org/specs/web-dom-core ) >>>> >>>> >>> >>> I'm reading it :-) >>> >>> And I have a few questions. >>> >> >> I did not see a proposal for Element.getElementById. >> >> I would not care about that much. >> >> I woud rather have >> >> Element.getElementsByName. >> >> It is perfectly valid for a doucment to have multiple elements w/the >> same name (though not generally a good idea). I've seen this before. >> >> Was this proposed? >> >> Garrett >> > > I don't remember what spec exactly stated this first, but I remind of a > previous HTML version declaring the 'name' attribute as unique in the > 'global scope' (or something like that),
What? > meaning the whole document; then, I > remember 'name' was deprecated in favour of 'id'. Name is not deprecated. It is, as I said, "perfectly valid". How else are you going to submit form values? Garrett
