- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:35:21 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Rikkert Koppes wrote: > > I see your point, to go for another route, maybe you'd just edit the source of > the problem (the note), remove it and include a text similar to the remark > about the disabled attribute. I.e: > ------- > When an input element is disabled, it is immutable. > When an input element is readonly, it is immutable. > ------- > However, there is no readonly concept defined (maybe this will clarify more, > but actually I think it's likely to complicate things even more). Hence, > another suggestion could be: > ------- > An input element to which the readonly attribute applies and has that > attribute specified, is immutable. The problem with those is that the requirement in question is already in the readonly section, along with some more requirements, and I don't want to split the requirements up to be all over the place... Instead I've annotated the note a little to make it slightly clearer why it's only "sometimes". Does that help? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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