- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 22:39:27 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Olav Junker Kj?r wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > I'd love to find a better name. The attribute is needed for ATs and > > form.validate() (to enable sane extensions in future). > > I dont think "successful" is required for AT's. What is required, is > that the AT can report to the user if a field is invalid and requires > attention before the form can be submitted. It should use the validity > property for this. It needs two things -- whether the control is going to be checked, and whether it is valid. You can have invalid controls that won't stop submission (e.g. because they are disabled). > As for extensions, the form should be able to query some > not-invented-yet control whether the control: > > 1) supports validation > 2) is currently valid > 3) what value(s) should be submitted (if any) Yeah. That's for Web Controls. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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