- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 02:12:16 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Hallvord R M Steen wrote: > > some code from airgreenland.com reminded me to bring up the discussion > of how to treat values of "required" attributes: > > <input name="CONTROLGROUPCONTACT$ContactInputView$TextBoxAddressLine2" > type="text" maxlength="52" > id="CONTROLGROUPCONTACT_ContactInputView_TextBoxAddressLine2" > class="w10" required="false" requiredError="Street address Field 2 is > required."> > > I've seen this before (and I'm sure many of you will recognise the > ASP.NET stuff). The problem is that <input required="false"> is treated > as <input required> by WF2 because the "false" value isn't recognised. I > think WF2 needs to do something sensible to ensure backwards > compatibility - ASP.NET form validation is going to cause us serious > problems otherwise. I notice that Opera still supports required="" today. Did this turn out to be a surmountable problem? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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