- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:42:26 +0100
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:54:10 -0400, Matthew Raymond > > Should the DOM reflect default values? E.g. if a number-control does not > I'm no Javascript expert, but I believe there are actually two ways > of getting an attribute. One if using GetAttribute, and the other is via > a property of a specific element object. GetAttribute would give you the > value set in the markup, whereas the object property would have the > value used by the UA. Oh right, so el.getAttribute('foo') and el.foo would point to different things in the DOM - what would el.foo='1' and el.setAttribute('foo',1) do to the opposite one? Seems a little unusual, and directly against 1.6.1 of DOM Level 2.0, but WTF, It might be a good idea, I've not really thought about it. > I'm not sure about email. Some addresses can get pretty long. The > same for URIs. So you would be against maxLength applying to these controls - what if I'm storing them in a varchar(255) would it not be a good idea to warn the client of this? > > shouldnt required apply to checkbox and radio? > > Unquestionably. I've seen numerous web pages that require checkboxes > and radio buttons. Indeed, I believe we reached consensus on this some time ago :-) Jim.
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