About KJS::HTMLCollection::getNamedItems

Mon Aug 19 16:29:44 BST 2002

On Monday 19 August 2002 6:43 pm, David Faure wrote:
|  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.
|

I agree.

|  > 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?

I was under impression that we were speaking about some corporate (Intranet) 
page, which required solution
// there was no Bug No. mentioned, that's why I had such impression

|  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.

It's fine with me.
Even more: I fully support your approach! :-)

On the other hand:
If there are web pages where Konq crashes - may be, first priority canbe to 
fix thos epages?
I have closed some crash-related bugs, but it seems there are still many web 
pages where Konq crashes...

|
|  > 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.

And you can try  testcase with two equal id's in Mozilla.
It will dispaly *nothing*. 
Hope Konq does the same with HTML4-Strict or XHTML1-Strict, right? :-)

|
|  - --
|  David FAURE, david at mandrakesoft.com, faure at kde.org

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