Ian Hickson on Fri Jan 20 14:31:01 PST 2012: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Christoph Päper wrote: >> Anne van Kesteren: >> > I'm still trying to get HTML and browsers to change so that attribute >> > values always match case-sensitively, irrespective of markup language. >> > The current magic attribute list in HTML whose values needs to be >> > matched ASCII case-insensitively is just ugly.
> The spec changed recently in response to Anne's efforts here. If this is > an area of interest, I encourage you to study the specification to see if > the current requirements are satisfactory. The matching rule for attribute names and element names, [1] doesn't match reality, see demo: [2] * Gecko uses ASCII case-insensitive matching (as specced by HTML5) * Trident/Webkit/Presto use Unicode caseless matching (variant). (Legacy Firefox 3.6 behave like Trident/Webkit/Presto too.) The differences affect @data-* and @x-* (and other extensions). Shouldn't spec match Trident/WEbkit/Presto? [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/links#case-sensitivity [2] http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1307 -- Leif Halvard Silli
