[whatwg] [wf2] s/tag name/localName/

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Tue Aug 15 01:41:17 PDT 2006


On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> Section 2.12.
> "The element specified is the one that would be returned when calling
> getElementById() with the value of the list attribute as the argument, if the
> returned value is an element node with either the tag name datalist or the tag
> name select, and (for XHTML) with the XHTML namespace. "
> 
> For precision, should say "localName", not "tag name".

Fixed, though now people have to know the term "local name"... they all 
know what a "tag name" is (or think they do, even if they don't really). 
Not sure this change actually helped matters! :-)

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