How to force Chrome (or any other WebKit browser)

Question

I was having issues because of Chrome automatically referencing DIV... It works that way in Safari (desktop and mobile), but not in Firefox.

See image:

See Fiddle (open in Chrome, then in Firefox): http://jsfiddle.net/stefek99/Sqcff/

The question is - how to disable this feature? I would really like to develop in "strict" mode without any Google quirks, just to make sure my code is cross-browser compliant.

Answer 1

This is a known 'problem', however I have not been able to find a reliable method of disabling this. One might think that "use strict"; should probably disable it but that doesn't seem to be the case.

In any case, some more explanation on it; Do DOM tree elements with ids become global variables? As explained there it will probably be standardized in HTML5. It all started out as a non-standard IE feature, which ofcourse got mimicked in other browsers. Theres even a msdn blog post noting it as a 'problem' so it seems a bit silly the HTML5 working group is trying to standardize it now.

I would like to note to anybody to please not rely on this problem feature as it is very ambiguous and hard to debug for programmers who don't know of it.