- From: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:49:26 -0500
Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Matthew Raymond wrote:
>>That is not the case with <output> in a legacy user agent. Any HTML
>>contents will display as HTML in a legacy UA. Yet if we assume the
>><textarea> model for <output>, WF2 UAs will display the underlying
>>markup as text instead of rendering it. So, right off the bat, we have a
>>difference in how the contents of <output> are rendered between legacy
>>and WF2 user agents.
>
> Elements inside <output> are rendered as elements, with all that that
> implies; there is no special parsing.
The contents of <output> are the initial value, yet they are not parsed.
/me scratches his head.
>>Since we can't avoid a difference in rendering unless we artificially
>>enforce a no-markup-inside-<output> rule, what does it hurt to simply
>>have a |value| attribute to set the .defaultvalue directly?
>
> The two things are separate. What's the use case for value=""?
Well, for one, in situations where you want to use <input readonly>
as a fallback container for a calculated value.
Received on Monday, 21 March 2005 06:49:26 UTC