- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 14:09:59 +0300
On Mar 31, 2006, at 01:10, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >> Is it conforming to have no option that is marked selected? (I >> think allowing this is safe.) > > I'm pretty sure we've been through this before -- I think it > shouldn't be, ratemy*.com thinks it should be, and there are more > of those sites than there are of me. :-) (Why they don't just use a > set of numbered <input type="submit">s, which would work even with > JavaScript off, I have no idea.) Those are radio buttons. The spec says the UA should select the first non-disabled <option> in the <select> case. On Mar 31, 2006, at 03:31, fantasai wrote: > Hixie would have said something about it being nonconforming to > have no > selected options at that point, and wouldn't have had multiple > examples > of <select>s with no selected options, if that was what he meant. Good point. I only read the spec prose that dealt with UA behavior and was silent on conformance. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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