- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:55:37 +0100
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: Tom Morris <tom@tommorris.org>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
P.S. I have now visited [1], using SeaMonkey 1.1 (sufficiently similar to Firefox in terms of the underlying rendering engine -- Gecko -- that I might expect similar behaviour). I do /not/ see any file: protocol being invoked when I press the "Contribute" button, but even before that I see a crazily-written page where a significant fraction of the scrollable area at the bottom is invisible and cannot be seen using any available mechanism other than "view source". If sites are to be presented as supporting evidence of the need for a particular behaviour, then it is surely essential that those sites possess the most basic attributes of "quality". It would, I fear, be only too easy to find examples of any kind of behaviour the need for which one wished to demonstrate if the universe of discourse included /all/ web pages, rather than being restricted to those that demonstrate even a modicum of intelligence concerning their coding and design. Philip TAYLOR -------- Lachlan Hunt wrote: > For example, if you were to attempt submit the form on this site [1] in > a browser that supports usemap on input elements, like Firefox, the form > would not function because the map has turned the entire button into a > useless link instead (in this case, it's a file:// URL, so there is no > question about it being useless). If you try it in a browser that > doesn't support usemap on input, like IE, the submit button works as > intended. > [1] http://alforag.com/donate/ > [2] http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-August/012334.html > [3] http://www.wheresmysquare.com/ > [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Aug/0462.html >
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