- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:06:45 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > Actually, after a little more thought, the action attribute you > suggested may actually be better for graceful degradation. but instead > of using type="template" or type="button", use type="submit" for either > <input> or <button>: > > <input type="submit" action="add" template="foo" value="Add Row"> OR > <button type="submit" action="add" template="foo">Add Row</button> > > That solves the problem with IE, where <button> defaults to push button > instead of submit. It could be defined that buttons with a valid and > known action attribute don't submit the form, but rather behave > according to the action attribute. (It would have to be something other than action="", since we're using that already.) This is one idea, and I have considered it in the past. But it just seems so semantically wrong that I can't bring myself to put it in the spec. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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