About KJS::HTMLCollection::getNamedItems

Mon Aug 19 15:43:27 BST 2002

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On Friday 16 August 2002 07:56, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> Should not this example be:
> 
> <html><body onLoad='alert(""+document.myname.length)'>
> <form id="myname">
> <input id="myname2" type="text">
> </form></body></html>
> ???

If it was, then we would have nothing to fix. But it wasn't.

> actually, there are two points:
> 1) attr. 'name' is deprecated, 'id' should be used

Are you going to fix all the web pages out there?
Please understand that we're developing a browser here, not a web page.
So we have to support whatever web page designers use, even if that stuff
has been deprecated by the latest w3c specs.

> 2) valid HTML can't have two elements with same 'id'

Right. But they can have the same name. And that happens often, and is
part of the (MSIE at least) specs.

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