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Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID?

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Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> […]
> “Note. This attribute has been included for backwards compatibility.
> Applications should use the id attribute to identify elements.”
>    Description of the “name” attribute of “img” element in HTML 4.01
>    Specification, 1999,
>    http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#edef-IMG

Notes are never normative.  It is one thing to write that in a specification 
for a markup language.  It is quite another to consider the implications to 
DOM implementations, and to the interoperability and efficiency of DOM 
scripting.  You learn that the hard way when you do DOM scripting as a 
professional Web developer.

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Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? Tuxedo <tuxedo@mailinator.com> - 2013-04-18 00:50 +0200
  Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-04-18 01:29 +0200
    Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-04-18 07:53 +0300
      Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-04-18 10:07 +0200
    Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? Tuxedo <tuxedo@mailinator.com> - 2013-04-18 08:39 +0200
    Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-18 11:06 +0200
      Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-04-18 13:05 +0300
        Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-04-18 20:21 +1000
        Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-18 12:39 +0200
          Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-04-18 16:38 +0200
            Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-19 01:25 +0200
              Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-04-19 19:40 +0200
                Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-19 19:52 +0200
        Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-04-18 13:56 +0300
          Re: Accessing image property in IE when there's a period in the html ID? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-18 13:19 +0200

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