On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org>wrote:
> Gecko *always* required getElementById in standards mode, until FF15. > That's why most pages worked (and still do) without element IDs in the > global scope. But no-one else was willing to follow suit, so we dropped it. > That's unfortunate. It's one of the most pathologically broken behaviors on the platform; now there will be nothing discouraging people from using it. I think this was a net win despite the cost to interoperability. -- Glenn Maynard