- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:00:18 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Matthew Raymond wrote: > > I already have a good sense of why it's so hard to come up with a > solution for this, but let's give it a shot anyway. After all, a good > engineer needs to document what won't work, because you never know when > a client/manager/other person might ask you why you didn't take a > specific approach. > > Solution #1 - New elements: Wouldn't be backwards compatible. > Solution #2 - Metadata Switch: What's the point? If authors want to select a radio button by default, there is already a switch -- the "checked" attribute on the radio button that sets the radio button they want to have be the default to be checked. And it's better than a <meta> switch, since they can control it on a per-radio-button-set, and they can pick which radio button should default to checked... -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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