- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:41:52 -0700
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
On Apr 1, 2009, at 6:39 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > Gecko and WebKit (but not Opera, it seems) lower-case the > getElementByTagName() argument in text/html and element selectors in > style sheets that apply to text/html. Making the comparisons > actually case-sensitive seems bad at least in the context of Gecko. How about making the comparisons actually case-*in*sensitive? > This means that unless getElementByTagName() and the CSS parser also > use the magic camelCase list, it's impossible to use element > selectors or getElementByTagName() on SVG elements with camelCase > names. > > The spec should probably prescribe the camelCase list to be used for > getElementByTagName() and the CSS parser. However, those lack the > context the HTML parser has, so textArea can't be put on the list. Regards, Maciej
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