- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 22:41:55 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: WHAT Working Group <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: > > I propose to change the specification to remove any elements that are no > longer associated with the form from the past names map: > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html#past-names-map > > It's strange for elements to linger around forever in the past names map > after the element get associated with a new form element. Since IE > didn't support form attribute for a long time (or maybe still hasn't?), > I don't think there is any compatibility concern. > > The change makes the elements associated with the form element more > consistent and easier to reason about. We can make form[x].form === > form an invariant for every x such that form[x] is a form control > element. This was fixed in response to: On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > I filed https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23073 Let me know if there's still something to fix here. Note that there's no need to file a bug if feedback on the spec is sent to the list; I treat them both as input to the spec. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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