On Oct 2, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Elliott Sprehn <espr...@gmail.com> wrote:
What of the fact that this breaks existing pages with <input
id="Path"> that access it as just Path? Historically this has been a
non-starter for new APIs.
On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:12:46 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com>
wrote:
Can we get data on prevalence of such pages?
Data set:
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2012/04/html5-accessibility-chops-data-for-the-masses/
$ grep -aPc "\s(?i:(id|name))\s*=\s*(\"|')?Path((\"|')|(\s|>|/))"
stevef-all
0
$ grep -aPc "\s(?i:(id|name))\s*=\s*(\"|')?Audio((\"|')|(\s|>|/))"
stevef-all
2
$ grep -aPc "\s(?i:(id|name))\s*=\s*(\"|')?URL((\"|')|(\s|>|/))" stevef-all
18
Data set: http://dotnetdotcom.org/
$ grep -aPc "\s(?i:(id|name))\s*=\s*(\"|')?Path((\"|')|(\s|>|/))" web200904
85
$ grep -aPc "\s(?i:(id|name))\s*=\s*(\"|')?Audio((\"|')|(\s|>|/))"
web200904
27
$ grep -aPc "\s(?i:(id|name))\s*=\s*(\"|')?URL((\"|')|(\s|>|/))" web200904
1357
(I don't have data on how many of these also do something like <form
onsubmit="return validate(URL)"> etc.)
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Simon Pieters
Opera Software
