[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 33644] Aliasing javascript globals to elements with matching name/id is inconsistent with Firefox and slow

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33644





--- Comment #6 from Darin Adler <darin at apple.com>  2010-01-15 08:14:18 PST ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> Given that Firefox differs here, I do not think this will be a significant
> problem.  Authors that care about site compatibility will notice that their
> site does not work in Firefox (and hasn't in quite a while).  Authors that do
> not care are probably beyond our help no matter what we do.

Our past experience is that websites often have JavaScript code that only runs
with a particular browser based on user agent checks. I’m not sure your guess
is correct. We made changes like this albeit smaller scale in the past,
changing from behavior that did not match Firefox to behavior that did, and
subsequently struggled with websites that broke.

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