[web forms 2]Behavior of maxlength on scripted value changes

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:12:22 -0500 Message-ID: <484848A6.2000409@mit.edu> To: "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Thursday, 5 June 2008 20:13:11 GMT

The section on maxlength in http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/ 
(the 12 October 2006 version) says nothing about what happens if script on the 
page (or script from a bookmarklet, whatever) does:

   myInput.value = "some long string";

where the string length is longer than myInput.maxlength.

This should probably be specified.

See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345267

-Boris