- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 16:29:09 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > I haven't changed the HTML5 spec on this issue, since it seems that what > the spec says is what people seemed to agree was the desireable behaviour. > > Namely, the method is case-sensitive except for elements in the HTML > namespace in HTML documents. That doesn't sound to me like what was agreed on towards the end there, but maybe I misunderstood. My impression is that for the HTML namespace in HTML documents the argument to getElementsByTagName is ASCII-lowercased before doing a case-sensitive compare; for everything else the original case is used. -Boris
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