- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:03:21 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Frederic Simard wrote: > > I have some concern about restriction on the > applicability of the readonly attribute on some of the > form elements. The readonly attribute should be > applicable to all form elements that can change. This > means that the elements that should not support the > readonly attribute is the output and button elements. > I do not see good reasons to not support readonly > attributes on checkbox, radio and select elements. >From a UI point of view, there simply is no concept of a "readonly" checkbox, radio, or select element (try to find an example in your operating system to see what I mean). What you want is <output>. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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