- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:28:21 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Olav Junker Kj?r wrote: > > I assume that the type of the "form" HTML attribute is IDREF. Effectively, yes. > [...] So the DOM property corresponding to the IDREF attribute is of > type DOMString, while a sepereate DOM property (which doesn't correspond > directly to a HTML attribute) points directly to the reference element. Note that in DOM2 HTML, the htmlFor attribute was alone; there was no attribute pointing to the element. IMHO this is an error -- the ID is mostly useless, it's the control that you want, hence the addition of the new attribute in WF2. So when introducing a new attribute, I don't see much value in providing access to the DOMString version. Might as well just go straight to making the DOM attribute useful. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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