- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 21:19:22 -0500
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@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. -- Glenn Maynard
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