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Bug 15184 - document.all.item(string) shouldn't do the same thing as HTMLCollection
Summary: document.all.item(string) shouldn't do the same thing as HTMLCollection
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-12-14 19:06 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-01-18 09:13 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Patch (2.57 KB, patch)
2011-12-17 15:28 UTC, Ms2ger 		Details

Description contributor 2011-12-14 19:06:51 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-dom-interfaces.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#htmlallcollection-0
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#htmlallcollection-0

Comment:
document.all.item(string) shouldn't do the same thing as HTMLCollection

Posted from: 71.184.125.56 by bzbarsky@mit.edu
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:11.0a1) Gecko/20111206 Firefox/11.0a1
Comment 1 Boris Zbarsky 2011-12-14 19:07:54 UTC 
In particular, it seems to not be equivalent to converting the string to a number and passing that number to item().
Comment 2 Ms2ger 2011-12-16 19:44:57 UTC 
See also bug 15201.
Comment 3 Ms2ger 2011-12-17 15:28:30 UTC 
Created attachment 1052 [details]
Patch
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-01-17 23:02:49 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.