From 4baa213d881a71ffd8557bc587f81d0bc606d63c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: timmywil <tim.willison@thisismedium.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:51:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] First proposed solution for IE6/7 get/setAttribute quirks. 
 Needs more testing, but solves some issues

---
 src/attributes.js | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 src/support.js    |  5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/attributes.js b/src/attributes.js
index 83d02e21..ee4dc1ba 100644
--- a/src/attributes.js
+++ b/src/attributes.js
@@ -275,12 +275,6 @@ jQuery.extend({
 		offset: true
 	},
 	
-	// TODO: Check to see if any of these are needed anymore?
-	// If not, it may be good to standardize on all-lowercase names instead
-	attrFix: {
-		
-	},
-
 	attr: function( elem, name, value, pass ) {
 		
 		// don't get/set attributes on text, comment and attribute nodes
@@ -342,7 +336,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
 				// Look for the name in elem.attributes.name
 				var attrs = elem.attributes, i = 0, len = attrs.length;
 				for ( ; i < len; i++ ) {
-					if ( attrs[i]["name"] === name ) {
+					if ( attrs[i].name === name ) {
 						return true;
 					}
 				}
@@ -455,7 +449,7 @@ if ( !jQuery.support.style ) {
 // Safari mis-reports the default selected property of an option
 // Accessing the parent's selectedIndex property fixes it
 if ( !jQuery.support.optSelected ) {
-	
+
 	jQuery.propHooks.selected = {
 		get: function( elem ) {
 			var parent = elem.parentNode;
@@ -475,4 +469,31 @@ if ( !jQuery.support.optSelected ) {
 	};
 }
 
-})( jQuery );
+// IE6/7 do not support getting/setting some attributes with get/setAttribute
+
+if ( jQuery.support.attrFix ) {
+	var attrFix = {
+		"for": "htmlFor",
+		"class": "className",
+		readonly: "readOnly",
+		maxlength: "maxLength",
+		cellspacing: "cellSpacing",
+		rowspan: "rowSpan",
+		colspan: "colSpan",
+		tabindex: "tabIndex",
+		usemap: "useMap",
+		frameborder: "frameBorder"
+	};
+	
+	jQuery.each(attrFix, function( key, name ) {
+		jQuery.attrHooks[ key ] = jQuery.extend( jQuery.attrHooks[ key ], {
+			get: function( elem ) {
+				return elem.getAttribute( name );
+			},
+			set: function( elem, value ) {
+				elem.setAttribute( name, value );
+				return value;
+			}
+		});
+	});
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/support.js b/src/support.js
index 4c309562..3ca28d20 100644
--- a/src/support.js
+++ b/src/support.js
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@
 	var div = document.createElement("div");
 
 	div.style.display = "none";
+	div.setAttribute("className", "t");
 	div.innerHTML = "   <link/><table></table><a href='/a' style='color:red;float:left;opacity:.55;'>a</a><input type='checkbox'/>";
-
+	
 	var all = div.getElementsByTagName("*"),
 		a = div.getElementsByTagName("a")[0],
 		select = document.createElement("select"),
@@ -58,6 +59,8 @@
 		// (WebKit defaults to false instead of true, IE too, if it's in an optgroup)
 		optSelected: opt.selected,
 
+		attrFix: div.getAttribute("className") === "t",
+
 		// Will be defined later
 		deleteExpando: true,
 		optDisabled: false,