- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:05:02 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, [UTF-8] Olav Junker Kj?r wrote: > > Therefore the spec has to *describe* and *allow* the currently > implemented behavior, but does not have to *mandate* it. > > So the spec could describe the meaning of the autocomplete attribute and > then, without any "should" or "must"'s describe the UI behavior that The > Banks consider acceptable in a banking client. Then implementors are > free to choose whether to make their browser Bank-compliant or fully > user-empowering by default, independently from the decision to support > WF2. The exact UI behaviour is left open by the spec right now, it's just the general behaviour that is defined. And now it's a should, anyway, so UAs can, if they have a good reason to (like "it's very bad user hostile UI!"), do something else. Is that enough? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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