- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:37:03 -0700
>> As for case: >> >> [Opera] >> match for id or name is case-insensitive regardless of mime type. >> >> [Firefox and Safari] >> application/xhtml+xml >> match for id is case-sensitive >> text/html >> match for name is case-insensitive >> >> [IE6] >> match for name or id is case-insenstive. >> >> So, it seems it might have to be case-sensitive for xhtml5 (since >> other things are case-sensitive in xml) and case-insensitive for >> html5. (Unless there's no need to be case-sensitive for XHTML5. If so, >> then Opera's way would be cool.) > > I don't see any need for it to be case-sensitive for XHTML5. :-) > > [1] > http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-April/010975.html Since ID is case sensitive everywhere else, I don't see a reason to make an exception from that rule here. That seems to unnecessarily complicate implementation as well as introduce weird inconsistencies for authors. / Jonas
Received on Saturday, 18 August 2007 10:37:03 UTC