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From: Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: document.elementname vs document.getElementById("id")
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:14:43 +0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:02:52 +0300, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> The short answer is: change your habits but not existing code. For new
> pages, use the modern, logical way. For old pages, remember that any fix
> will introduce errors with a nonignorable probability, so don't do fixes
> just to "clean things up"

Ah

But the existing code is broken: document.all.formname

Very Senior Coder but not a web guy thinks that because it works now on 
his browser of choice, document.formname is a valid fix

I'm arguing that the correct fix is to convert broken 
document.all.formname to document.getElementById("formid") and assign ids 
to forms as appropriate.

i.e. this isn't cleaning things up for the sake of it, this is fixing 
currently broken code.

Rgds

Denis McMahon