[whatwg] [canvas] Path object
Glenn Maynard
glenn at zewt.org
Wed Oct 3 19:19:22 PDT 2012
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org>wrote:
> Gecko *always* required getElementById in standards mode, until FF15.
> That's why most pages worked (and still do) without element IDs in the
> global scope. But no-one else was willing to follow suit, so we dropped it.
>
That's unfortunate. It's one of the most pathologically broken behaviors
on the platform; now there will be nothing discouraging people from using
it. I think this was a net win despite the cost to interoperability.
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Glenn Maynard
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