[whatwg] <map id="">

[Ian Hickson]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Shadow2531 wrote:
> 
> In Opera, regardless of mime type, Opera can match usemap="#test" to 
> <map id="test">, <map name="test"> or <map name="test" id="test">. 
> Whether Opera uses the map element with the name or the map element with 
> the id depends on which one comes first in the document.
> 
> IE does the same.
> 
> For FF Minefield, it strictly only matches an id in 
> application/xhtml+xml and strictly only matches a name attribute in 
> text/html.
> 
> Allowing *both* id and name to match (in text/html at least ) per IE's 
> rules would be great for compatibility.
> 
> As for application/xhtml+xml and the name attribute, I don't have much 
> of an opinion.
> 
> Having to use name in text/html and id in application/xhtml+xml or both 
> if you're serving the page as text/html to some and 
> application/xhtml+xml to others means an extra tweak that could be 
> solved by allowing id to match in text/html.
> 
> Just being able to use id regardless of the mime type would be the way 
> to go and name can be left for just for text/html for compatibility if 
> we don't want to allow it for application/xhtml+xml too like Opera does.

Right now the spec requires that you use id="", but both name="" and 
id="" work, and they are case-insensitive. So we have back-compat (except 
in esoteric cases where pages expect it _not_ to match something, or where 
there are duplicates). Is that ok?

The case-insensitiveness on ID could be a problem. Should that change?

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