On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:01:27 +0200, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org>
wrote:
On Wednesday 2010-08-25 10:28 +0200, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
We need a feature for case-insensitive matching in Selectors already
for XHTML (if we really care about this, not sure we do).
Allowing case-insensitive matching beyond matching of a fixed set of
ASCII-only values seems scary.
If such a general selectors feature were defined as ASCII-only, then
it would appear to work but then break for cases where it needed to
be more than ASCII-only (or where the standard ASCII-only algorithm
is incorrect, such as Turkish, where where I/i are not
case-equivalents; İ/i and I/ı are).
If it weren't ASCII-only, it would involve significantly more
complexity than what's needed to support HTML.
I think it can be ASCII-only. You "need" it for input[type=password] and
such. The only attributes that are currently "compatibility caseless" are
name on <input type=radio> and name on <map>.
--
Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
