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Re: [WF2] new attributes that often conflict with actual pages

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:26:01 +0200
To: "Sean Hogan" <shogun70@westnet.com.au>, "Simon Pieters" <simonp@opera.com>
Cc: public-html@w3.org, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "Hallvord R. M. Steen" <hallvord@opera.com>, "Laurens Holst" <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
Message-ID: <op.uuk8tncs64w2qv@annevk-t60> 
On Wed, 27 May 2009 14:18:59 +0200, Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> If I didn't know HTML5 Forms and was looking for a bug in code someone  
> else wrote and saw button.formAction I would assume it was meant to be  
> button.form.action. If I saw button.submitAction then I would google it.

formAction seems far more intiutive though. And if you debug to see if it returns something unexpected you would learn its function.


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