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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11347 --- Comment #4 from Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com> 2010-12-31 19:40:12 UTC --- Ah. I thought that since HTML 5 wasn't finalized yet, the latest W3C Recommendation was still HTML 4.01. But if everyone has moved to HTML 5 already, I'm happy to move with them. So let's look at what the standard says: >If the form has no submit button, then the implicit submission mechanism must >just submit the form element from the form element itself. But it's not clear from this text how to determine whether 'the form has no submit button'. Does it mean if the download made by the browser so far does not include any <input type="submit">, even if the download so far is obviously a partial download? If so, that needs to be stated IMHO. An equally plausible reading of the text is that to determine whether 'the form has no submit button' then the browser needs to download the <form> element at least. I apologize if there is some general principle elsewhere in the spec that says 'for a partially downloaded page, the semantics are as if you close all the open elements and take that as the full HTML document', but I didn't see anything like that. So I think there is a decision to be made here about at what point a form can be submitted. If the decision has already been made, it needs to be stated explicitly. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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