[whatwg] [WHATWG] HTMLElement ids as global object properties

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 4/11/11 11:47 AM, Juriy Zaytsev wrote:
> There is a somewhat similar issue for Mozilla about named form controls
> shadowing members of HTMLFormElement interface, etc. —
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322488 I'd love to see that
> fixed too; not sure how compat-breaking that would be.

Too much.  Every browser implements that in all modes; lots of sites 
depend on it.

The details of whether it's ok to shadow methods on the form itself are 
up for grabs, possible.  But generally form.foo needs to work for at 
least things that don't shadow.

-Boris