[whatwg] [html5] r3306 - [] (0) Define interaction with CSS case-sensitivity rules.
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Mon Jul 13 23:26:37 PDT 2009
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
> > +
> > + <p>Classes from the <code title="attr-class">class</code> attribute
> > + of <span>HTML elements</span> in documents that are in <span>quirks
> > + mode</span> must be treated as case-insensitive.</p>
>
> This is the case for SVG classes, too, but maybe it's up to the SVG spec
> to define that.
Yeah, I'd rather not poke any more fingers into SVG than I already have...
> > + <p>Attribute selectors on an <span title="HTML elements">HTML
> > + element</span> in an <span title="HTML documents">HTML
> > + document</span> must treat the <em>values</em> of attributes with
> > + the following names as case-insensitive:</p>
>
> Why are values case-insensitive only in HTML documents? The values are
> case-insensitive in XHTML, too.
Do we really want to have anything case-insensitive in XML docs?
> This list is missing charset and ismap
As far as I can tell, those are not case-insensitive in Selectors in
either Gecko or WebKit.
> and presumably the new attributes in HTML5: [...]
Why would we want to add anything to this list?
I'd rather keep this list as small as possible.
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