Re: [i18n-activity] Re-investigate "compatibility caseless" matching #1666

Here is Domenic's summary:

> browsers are not interoperable
about what type of Unicode case-insensitivity they implement here, with
WebKit even using case-sensitive matching for the radio button case (but
not for the image map case). Data from Blink's use counters reveals
however that the Unicode case-insensitivity is never triggered, and even
ASCII case-insensitivity is triggered extraordinarily rarely.
Additionally, the semantics of these attributes is more like an
identifier than anything else, and so case-insensitive comparison never
really made sense in the first place (it was only done for legacy
Internet Explorer compatibility). As such, we move to converge on
case-sensitive matching in all cases.

The change has been made to WhatWG's HTML doc and to Blink.

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