- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 23:10:08 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, martijnw wrote: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-24874179 > > "value of type DOMString > Represents the current contents of the corresponding form control, > in an interactive user agent. Changing this attribute changes the > contents of the form control, but does not change the contents of the > element." > > I would rather have it that changing the dom attribute 'value' or typing > in the textarea, would also change the contents of the textnode in the > textarea. Unfortunately this would not be a backwards-compatible change. > In that way the dom level 2 traversal and range specification would not > be useless for textarea's. > > The same goes for input text controls and probably also for other form > controls. We will definitely be looking into ways of addressing these problems, either in Web Apps 1.0 or in a later spec. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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