[whatwg] <map id="">

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Mon Aug 20 04:55:22 PDT 2007


On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:58:29 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> 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.


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Anne van Kesteren
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