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

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2013-04-18 13:05, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> 2013-04-18 12:06, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>
>> However, using an ID (“id” attribute value of “img” elements) instead
>> of a
>> name (“name” attribute value of “img” elements) is not
>> backwards-compatible
>> to DOM Level 0.
>
> The pointless troll seems to focus on warning against good coding
> practices on the grounds of something that might happen in early
> releases of Internet Explorer 3 or Netscape Navigator 2.

Oh, since the troll probably posts a pointless pseudo-lecture on this, 
maybe I should add this:

“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

-- 
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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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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