- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:58:24 +0200
- To: public-html-comments@w3.org, "Thompson, John" <jthomp@midwestern.edu>
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:46:07 +0200, Thompson, John <jthomp@midwestern.edu> wrote: > As I was reading through the differences doc I noticed that HTML5 is > making it possible to move form associated elements outside of the form > tag. This is a good step, I wonder though, why not go further and allow > all but the submit button to be associated with multiple forms? I have > many times needed more than one form on the page and if I could share a > couple of those elements between forms (especially the hidden elements), > that would be much simpler. Ideas? We had this back in Web Forms 2.0. The form="" attribute took a space-separated list. There were a few minor issues with radio buttons and overall we decided it would probably be better to simplify the model somewhat for now. (Older Opera builds have support for this.) -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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