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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13769 --- Comment #31 from Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com <mtanalin@yandex.ru> 2011-10-11 23:56:38 UTC --- (In reply to comment #30) > Regarding textarea, I fear people would use it inappropriately, so it would be > a problem. For example, one could imagine this very textarea I'm using right > now being marked trim="", since most of the time that makes sense. But if I had > started this comment with some indented code, it would break the first line's > indentation. There is no much sense to start a _message_ from indentation in general and from code in particular. Code in message is usually prepended with a summary what code is related for. If any of leading/trailing whitespace characters in particular field is important (for example, if a textarea is intended _exactly_ to type _code_ and only _code_ into it), then author will just not use trim attribute for such textarea at all. > I could see an argument for trimming just leading and trailing newlines, rather > than newlines and spaces; what do you think? I think it would be inconsistent with server-side trimming as well as JavaScript String.trim() function and therefore confusing. There is quite clear and well-known definition of what is string trimming, and there is no need for inventing a fantom difficulties and unexpected limitations here. > For the fieldset case, do you have an example of a Web page that groups > controls in this way? I don't want to add it to fieldset unless it's clear that > authors really are using fieldset in this way, otherwise it's just bloat. It's well-known usability principle for forms: to group related (required ones in particular) fields together. For example, imagine big registration form that starts from a few required fields (like username, password, and e-mail) followed by optional ones (like living city or ICQ number). I could of course create an live example of such form for you, but I doubt it makes much sense. After all, both forms and fieldsets are containers for fields, and if we could use trim attribute for forms, why couldn't we use this on fieldset to get more flexibility? -- 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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