276010 - identical object and embed names create array in DOM

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Ryan Gammon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922

On http://sansfrontieres.france2.fr/, there's an <embed> tag nested within a
<object> tag. Both are given the same name, lirevideo.

Mozilla deals with this by creating an array of lirevideo's. It could
potentially be a little smarter and disregard the outer <object> tag... bug
108094 mentioned something like this.

Not sure if this is a good idea or not :)

This is helixcommunity.org bug 3356.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ryan Gammon]

... This breaks javascript on this page, which assumes the object name will be
lirevideo vs lirevideo[1]

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Not a layout issue.

The problem, of course, is that both nodes ARE in the DOM.  So they should both
show up when you look for them by name...

Comment 3

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Comment 4

[Ryan Gammon]

Adding a comment to prevent this from being automatically resolved.

Might be a WONTFIX?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ian, what's WHATWG going to say on this?

Comment 6

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

I don't think WHATWG will be defining any particular behaviour for arbitrary
deref on the Document object.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

OK.  Apparently IE actually mutates the DOM (removes the embed or the object,
whichever it's not rendering).  I don't think we want to do that.