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

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 5/7/15 5:07 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>
>> I believe the SVGWG is fine with a parsing-based approach, exactly
>> like what HTML does.  An SVG element created with mixed casing, or
>> imported from an XML document, might not match a lowercase tagname
>> selector, but SVG written in HTML will.
>>
>
> Hmm.  The main problem here is for scripts that create SVG elements in an
> HTML document, since those have to use createElementNS and pass the
> mixed-case names (e.g. for foreignObject).


One idea could be to make createElement() return SVG elements for svg tag
names embedded in HTML.

Neither spec is ever going to have a conflicting tag name.

- E

Received on Thursday, 7 May 2015 21:12:24 UTC