- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:11:56 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Martijn wrote: > 2008/10/28 Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Martijn wrote: > >> > >> Submission of an <isindex> element is different compared to normal form > >> submission with a text input element, only the value part is submitted. > >> > >> This parsing definition: > >> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#isindex > >> means that <form><input name=isindex></form> also should only submit > >> the value part. > >> And indeed, that is what IE7 seems to be doing. > >> Mozilla even has a bug filed for this: > >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93795 > >> > >> So I guess this needs to be mentioned somewhere in the web forms spec or > >> something? > > > > Done, thanks. > > In hindsight, perhaps just remove the isindex element, all together. It's not allowed for authors, but it is required of UAs since there are still pages that use it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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