- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:49:51 +0100
- To: Web APIs WG <public-webapi@w3.org>
* Web APIs Issue Tracker wrote: >We don't say whether createEvent performs case-(in)sensitive comparison >with its argument. It should be case-sensitive but some implementations >disagree. I can't remember seeing a script that uses other spelling than >what we have in the document, and we don't disallow (or discuss in any >other way) proprietary extensions relative to createEvent(...), so it's >fairly save to specify that it's case-sensitive. > >If other disagree and want case-insensitive comparison, we need to de- >fine the algorithm for that. In Unicode there are several ways to do >that, assuming that we do not prohibit proprietary extensions that use >non-ASCII characters. I guess we should use simple case folding then, >but let's rather make it case-sensitive... A probably yet more backwards-compatible way to do this would be to say that the DOM Level 2 names are case-insensitive and the new DOM Level 3 names are case-sensitive. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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