Re: Browser inconsistencies in implementing name getters on forms and form element collections

On 4/15/11 11:26 AM, Simon Pieters wrote:
> Is this just for <img>?

I only bothered to test <img>, but Gecko's implementation here looks for 
anything that name lookups on Document look for (named 
images/objects/applets/whatever, anything with an id, etc).

> If Gecko changes and finds no compat problems then I'm sure Opera would
> change to match the spec too. If however you do find compat problems
> then that would be a good reason to change the spec.

See, we don't plan to change this twice, at least not in a release; that 
just screws authors over.  So either we'd like to change the spec or 
change this once and then stick to this decision.  Which is where we 
need buy-in from Opera and WebKit: if we all change this at once, that 
gives us that much more leverage in getting websites updated.

I suppose we could change this on our nightly channel and avoid shipping 
it for a while...

-Boris

Received on Friday, 15 April 2011 16:02:57 UTC