[Wtr-general] Question from a newbie

[Cain, Mark]

Forgive me, but yes (I my opinion) you did.  Is this forum for a ruby
framework that is exclusively for IE?  And doesn't ALL the tests that
are written and run, run in IE?  This thread was started by a question
about how to handle duplicate element ID's on a page--a behavior allowed
in IE--and that is done by using the 1 based object index.  Wouldn't
that make almost everything--at the very least indirectly--about IE?  

And for the record IE does not rely on the ID property but the index
(ordinal position) to guarantee object uniqueness.  That would make it
by design.  Here is the quote right from MS DHTML reference for the
element property ID:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml
/reference/dhtml_reference_entry.asp 
	"The id should be unique throughout the scope of the current
document. 	If a document contains more than one object with the
same identifier, 	the objects are exposed as a collection that can
be referenced only in 	ordinal position."
 

--Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: wtr-general-bounces at rubyforge.org
[mailto:wtr-general-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Bret Pettichord
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:37 PM
To: wtr-general at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Question from a newbie

Cain, Mark wrote:
> Excuse me but aren't we talking about IE here? 
Not that i was aware of. My understanding is that the topic at hand was 
whether the HTML generated by a web application was conformant to WC3 
standards and whether non-conformance should be considered a bug. This 
has nothing to do with IE.

If you want to start a new topic that criticizes IE, then go ahead. But 
i don't understand that to be relevant to the existing thread. Did i 
miss something in the discussion?

Bret

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