- From: Shawn Medero <smedero@ldc.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 07:55:02 -0400
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On May 25, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > 2) Changing the default rendering for form elements would not be > acceptable. It would break massive amounts of deployed form content. I should point out that regardless of what any usability surveys say, Maciej is right. I altered my user stylesheet to see what would happen if I generically asked button, input, select, and textarea elemets to be display:block... then visited some major sites (aol.com, bellsouth.net, espn.com ...) using Firefox. Nearly every site exhibited some level of breakage ... be that visually unappealing errors or more serious problems that could lead to confusion. (There were inconsistent errors though on the same page... where clearly CSS or an HTML table had stepped in and lined up everything right and the same type of widget would look out of whack later on in the page. These tended be things like search boxes, enter your zipcode... etc.) This wasn't a terribly scientific test but I'd happy to go through the hoops if someone really wants the data. -s
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