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- Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:05:13 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10809 --- Comment #10 from Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] <ehsan@mozilla.com> 2010-10-01 16:05:13 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9) > (In reply to comment #6) > > (In reply to comment #5) > > > It seems to me that this doesn't need to be an attribute, just that the browser > > > generates the direction metadata for any field for which the user has changed > > > direction, without having the author having to opt-in to that behavior. > > > > That's not a good choice, because of possible cases like this: > > > > <input type="hidden" name="foo_dir" value="bar"> > > <input type="text" name="foo"> > > > > This form will submit "foo_dir=bar" if the browser does not support this > > proposal, but if it does and the user submits the form with the direction of > > the second input changed, the form will submit "foo_dir=rtl" or "foo_dir=ltr". > > You could make the submitted metadata be something that the author cannot > generate. (For instance, using HTTP headers.) True, but that would be really strange, as it would be different to any other type of form data that is usually submitted. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. You reported the bug.
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