[whatwg] Tag Soup: Blocks-in-inlines

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, liorean wrote:
>
> On 25/01/06, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote:
> > On Jan 25, 2006, at 19:50, liorean wrote:
> > > So, how about dropping id uniqueness then?
> > UAs will have deal with author-introduced duplicate ids anyway, so
> > parser-introduced duplicates are not a big deal.
> 
> Well, the difference is that they can deal with that any way they
> like; including just going by the first/last occurence, thus in fact
> ensuring uniqueness in the DOM. Parser introduced duplicate ids
> require moving the handling of duplicate ids to when you're trying to
> use them for referencing an element; with solutions such as giving a
> nodelist instead of a node as return value from getElementById, which
> would in most cases break the script anyway.

In practice it really isn't a problem. Safari and Mozilla have both been 
doing this for years with no ill effects of that nature that I'm aware of.

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