- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:43:25 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Martin Atkins wrote: > > It would be useful to be able to mark certain submit buttons as > non-validating. I've added a novalidate="" attribute for this case. Thanks for the discussion of use cases and examples of actual sites, which were useful in determining whether this was worth adding, in particular: On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Martin Atkins wrote: > > * Allowing the user to submit an unfinished form to the server to be > saved for later completion. > > * A "preview" button that allows the user to see the results of what > has been completed so far without completing the entire form. > > * Buttons that trigger round-trips to the server to alter the form in > some way. On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Christian Schmidt wrote: > > There appears to be at least some demand for such a feature, and so far > there has been no negative responses. What is the next step? The next step is that I eventually (about 670 days later in this instance) get around to reading the feedback and processing it into the spec. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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