- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:41:37 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote: > To me, it would seem to be confusing if getElementsByTagName() behaved > differently depending on whether it was called on an HTML node or a > different kind of node. It would make more sense to me if it did case > insensitive matching for an element in the subtree if it were an HTML > element, and case sensitive otherwise (assuming we don’t want to make > everything case insensitive in HTML documents, including foreign content > nodes). I totally agree with this. The fact that it currently depends on the node on which the function is called, I think was a design made with the assumption that no-one would mix case sensitive and case insensitive content into a single Document. The fact that we are doing just that now I think is something that I think means that we need to adjust specs a little to be reasonable to work with. / Jonas
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