hixie: Update selector case-sensitivity matching rules, including dropping the list of magically case-insensitive values. (whatwg r6695)

hixie: Update selector case-sensitivity matching rules, including
dropping the list of magically case-insensitive values. (whatwg r6695)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.5366&r2=1.5367&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6694&to=6695

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--- Overview.html 18 Oct 2011 03:26:44 -0000 1.5366
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@@ -43128,74 +43128,31 @@
 
   <h4 id="selectors"><span class="secno">4.14.1 </span>Case-sensitivity</h4>
 
-  <p>Attribute and element <em>names</em> of <a href="#html-elements">HTML
-  elements</a> in <a href="#html-documents">HTML documents</a> must be treated as
-  <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>.</p>
+  <p>The Selectors specification leaves the case-sensitivity of IDs,
+  classes, element names, attribute names, and attribute values to be
+  defined by the host language. <a href="#refsSELECTORS">[SELECTORS]</a></p>
+
+  <p>The <a href="#concept-id" title="concept-id">unique identifier</a> of
+  <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a> in documents that are in <a href="#quirks-mode">quirks
+  mode</a> must be treated as <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
+  for the purposes of selector matching.</p>
 
   <p>Classes from the <code title="attr-class"><a href="#classes">class</a></code> attribute
   of <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a> in documents that are in <a href="#quirks-mode">quirks
-  mode</a> must be treated as <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII
-  case-insensitive</a>.</p>
-
-  <p>Attribute selectors on an <a href="#html-elements" title="HTML elements">HTML
-  element</a> in an <a href="#html-documents" title="HTML documents">HTML
-  document</a> must treat the <em>values</em> of attributes with
-  the following names as <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>, with one
-  exception as noted below:</p>
+  mode</a> must be treated as <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a>
+  for the purposes of selector matching.</p>
 
-  
-  
-  <ul class="brief"><li><code title="">accept</code>
-   <li><code title="">accept-charset</code>
-   <li><code title="">align</code>
-   <li><code title="">alink</code>
-   <li><code title="">axis</code>
-   <li><code title="">bgcolor</code>
-   <li><code title="">charset</code>
-   <li><code title="">checked</code>
-   <li><code title="">clear</code>
-   <li><code title="">codetype</code>
-   <li><code title="">color</code>
-   <li><code title="">compact</code>
-   <li><code title="">declare</code>
-   <li><code title="">defer</code>
-   <li><code title="">dir</code>
-   <li><code title="">direction</code> 
-   <li><code title="">disabled</code>
-   <li><code title="">enctype</code>
-   <li><code title="">face</code>
-   <li><code title="">frame</code>
-   <li><code title="">hreflang</code>
-   <li><code title="">http-equiv</code>
-   <li><code title="">lang</code>
-   <li><code title="">language</code>
-   <li><code title="">link</code>
-   <li><code title="">media</code>
-   <li><code title="">method</code>
-   <li><code title="">multiple</code>
-   <li><code title="">nohref</code>
-   <li><code title="">noresize</code>
-   <li><code title="">noshade</code>
-   <li><code title="">nowrap</code>
-   <li><code title="">readonly</code>
-   <li><code title="">rel</code>
-   <li><code title="">rev</code>
-   <li><code title="">rules</code>
-   <li><code title="">scope</code>
-   <li><code title="">scrolling</code>
-   <li><code title="">selected</code>
-   <li><code title="">shape</code>
-   <li><code title="">target</code>
-   <li><code title="">text</code>
-   <li><code title="">type</code> (except as specified below)
-   <li><code title="">valign</code>
-   <li><code title="">valuetype</code>
-   <li><code title="">vlink</code>
-  </ul><p>All other attribute values on <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a> must be
-  treated as <a href="#case-sensitive">case-sensitive</a>.</p>
+  <p>Attribute and element <em>names</em> of <a href="#html-elements">HTML
+  elements</a> in <a href="#html-documents">HTML documents</a> must be treated as
+  <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a> for the purposes of selector
+  matching.</p>
 
-  <p>The exception to the list above is the <code title="attr-ol-type"><a href="#attr-ol-type">type</a></code> attribute on <code><a href="#the-ol-element">ol</a></code>
-  elements, which must be treated as <a href="#case-sensitive">case-sensitive</a>.</p>
+  <p>Everything else (attribute values on <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a>,
+  IDs and classes in <a href="#no-quirks-mode">no-quirks mode</a> and
+  <a href="#limited-quirks-mode">limited-quirks mode</a>, and element names, attribute
+  names, and attribute values in <a href="#xml-documents">XML documents</a>) must be
+  treated as <a href="#case-sensitive">case-sensitive</a> for the purposes of selector
+  matching.</p>
 
 
   <h4 id="pseudo-classes"><span class="secno">4.14.2 </span>Pseudo-classes</h4>

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