[Bug 9084] Opera's implementation of this treats the comma as a delimiter (i.e. if you select Abyssinian from the drop-down and type a ',' after that, it gives you the drop-down again to select another item). I like this feature but want to make sure it is interopab

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9084


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #1 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2010-02-25 11:01:41 ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: That seems to be entirely a UI issue. I try not to specify UI, since
I prefer to have the browser vendors innovate and compete on it. There's no
real need for the UI to be implemented identically everywhere — if another
browser finds another way to allow you to use the <datalist> for
autocompletion, e.g. per-word, or more intelligently than just at commas, then
so much the better, IMHO.


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Received on Thursday, 25 February 2010 11:01:43 UTC