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Deprecate and Remove case-insensitive matching for usemap attribute

Category
DOM
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Removed (Chrome 58)
Intent stage
None

Summary

"Compatibility caseless" had been applied to usemap attribute matching. The specification was updated so that case-sensitive matching is applied. https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/6acdb2122298d2bb7bb839c0a61b4e1f9b0f9bc9 A deprecation warning is printed to the console starting in Chrome 57.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/img

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