Re: Case-sensitivity of attribute values wrt Selectors

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Simon Pieters wrote:
> 
> HTML 5 should define which attribute values should be treated 
> case-insensitively with regards to Selectors, and whether that's ASCII 
> case-insensitively or Unicode case-insensitively.
> 
> I tested what browsers do:
> 
>    http://simon.html5.org/test/selectors/case-sensitivity/
> 
> IE7 treats all attribute values case-sensitively.
> 
> When the document is served as XML, all attribute values are case-sensitive in
> Opera, Firefox and Safari.
> 
> When the document is served as text/html:
> 
> In Opera, for any HTML element, a given set of attributes (see below) are
> treated Unicode case-insensitively.
> 
> In Firefox, for any element (including non-HTML elements), a given set of
> attributes (see below) are treated Unicode case-insensitively.
> 
> In Safari, for any element (including non-HTML elements), all attributes are
> treated ASCII case-insensitively.
> 
> The set of attributes is (assuming I haven't missed some attribute to test):
> 
> accept, charset, disabled, align, alink, axis, bgcolor, charset, clear,
> codetype, color, compact, declare, defer, dir, disabled, enctype, face, frame,
> hreflang, http-equiv, ismap (missing in Firefox), language, link, media,
> method, multiple, noresize, noshade, nowrap, readonly, rel, rev, rules, scope,
> scrolling, selected, shape, target, text, type, valign (missing in Opera),
> valuetype, vlink.
> 
> Also see: http://rakaz.nl/item/css_selector_bugs_case_sensitivity
> 
> Personally, I think that whether the document was served as XML or 
> text/html shouldn't matter here, and that the same set of attributes 
> should be treated case-insensitively for both HTML and XHTML. Moreover, 
> I think the set of attributes should only apply for elements in the HTML 
> namespace (like in Opera). I don't mind that the set of attributes 
> applies to all elements in the HTML namespace.

I've updated the spec to match Mozilla and Safari (which has changed from 
above; see below) in terms of the list of attributes, and to require ASCII 
case-insensitivity.

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Simon Pieters wrote:
> 
> It seems that WebKit now has the same set of attributes as Mozilla, 
> treats them ASCII case-insensitively for HTML elements and only in 
> text/html. Now add ismap='' to that list and make it behave the same in 
> application/xhtml+xml... :-)

I've left XML be case-sensitive.

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