Re: [whatwg] Case-sensitivity of CSS type selectors in HTML

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
• Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 09:59:32 -0400
• To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
• Message-ID: <554B6FC4.4060807@mit.edu>

On 5/7/15 7:16 AM, Rune Lillesveen wrote:
> This adds an implementation complexity to type selector matching.
> What's the rationale for matching the selector case-sensitively in the
> svg case?

The idea is to allow the selector match to be done case-sensitively in 
all cases so it can be done as equality comparison on interned string 
representations instead of needing expensive case-insensitive matching 
on hot paths in the style system.

> Should we change the spec in this regard?

To what, exactly?  What is your proposed behavior here?

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 7 May 2015 13:59:57 UTC