- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:18:45 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Philip Taylor wrote: > > > > When a radio group has no checked radio button and more than one of > > the radio buttons is marked as required, the UA, when alerting the > > user, should only tell the user that the radio group as a whole is > > missing a value, not complain about each radio button in turn, even > > though all of the radio buttons marked with the required attribute > > would have the valueMissing flag set. > > (Suggested spec change: Say "When a radio group does not have exactly > one checked radio button and more than ...", to be consistent with the > definition of "required" in the (maybe impossible?) case where more than > one is checked.) > > (Suggested spec change: Say "When a radio group does not have exactly > one checked radio button, or a group of checkboxes with the same name > does not have one or more checked checkboxes, and more than one of the > group's form controls is marked as required, ...", because this should > apply to checkboxes and not just radio buttons.) The wording changed quite a bit; is the new wording ok? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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