[whatwg] Use cases for Node.getElementById

[Garrett Smith]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Calogero Alex Baldacchino
<alex.baldacchino at email.it> wrote:
> Garrett Smith ha scritto:
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>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Calogero Alex Baldacchino
>> <alex.baldacchino at email.it> wrote:
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>>> Simon Pieters ha scritto:
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>>>> On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:19:04 +0100, Calogero Alex Baldacchino
>>>> <alex.baldacchino at email.it> wrote:
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>>>>> [...]
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>>>> (I'm currently the editor of that proposal, currently located at
>>>> http://simon.html5.org/specs/web-dom-core )
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>>> I'm reading it :-)
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>>> And I have a few questions.
>>>
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>> I did not see a proposal for Element.getElementById.
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>> I would not care about that much.
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>> I woud rather have
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>> Element.getElementsByName.
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>> 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
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>
> 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