IE getElementsByName not working in JavaScript

IE's DOM methods getElementsByName and getElementById are not implemented properly.
So document.getElementsByName returns 0 if you don't have attribute id with same value as in attribute name.

• http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=131239
• http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/iewebdevelopment/thread/b3eb3e22-4e91-46be-9b4e-94533d2ec350/

It seems this is fixed in IE8. See demo:

• http://www.phpied.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/iefields.html