- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:33:04 -0400
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > I've gone through the spec changing "unless" to "except where" in a lot of > cases. Let me know if you think it should be better still. That looks great, as long as something else is actually specified somewhere in each of those cases. > If I did that, then the UA would be the one setting the string, and the > requirement in the previous sentence wouldn't apply, since that one is > about the UA not letting the _user_ set the string to an invalid value. Okay, then I give up on this point. > At the end of the day, readonly vs disabled is a UI toolkit feature that > is present in all UI toolkits I know of; I'd rather not have HTML5 turn > into a treatise in designing UIs and using UI widgets. Well, okay. I suppose the implementers of graphical browsers would be expected to be familiar with UI toolkits, but I doubt most web developers are (let alone web authors who aren't developers at all).
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