Why is jQuery auto lower casing attribute values?

Question

I am working with an SVG that is directly placed into an HTML file

Using javascript/jQuery I want t

Answer 1

http://docs.jquery.com/Won't_Fix#SVG.2FXML.2FVML_Bugs

jQuery recognise that they toLower all attribute names but don't care to make exceptions/remove this line as bugs relating to SVG are ignored (the toLower is superfluous in my opinion).