- From: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 07:39:39 -0400
Ian Hickson wrote:
>> Yeah, the whole point of radio buttons is that one option, no less
>>and no more, is selected. It's not intended to act as an implicit
>>checkbox to indicate you gave an input. If someone can give a use case
>>where there needs to be no options selected and there's no other viable
>>solution, I'm willing to hear it. Otherwise, the no-option-selected
>>scenario needs to be done away with one way or another.
>
> While I agree in principle, there isn't much we can do about this. Years
> of compatibility on this issue rather forces our hand. Sites have come to
> depend on what IE and other browsers do.
Can we at the very least recommend that webmasters always have a
specific radio button set as the default?
Received on Sunday, 22 August 2004 04:39:39 UTC